Nissan has opened an electric vehicle battery recycling facility in Japan which will also provide energy storage systems for the area.
The plant in Namie will be run by 4R Energy, a joint venture between Nissan and the Sumitomo Corporation.
Nissan said in a statement: “The plant will serve as the global center for 4R’s development and manufacturing. The batteries recycled and refabricated at the factory will be used to offer the world’s first exchangeable refabricated battery for electric vehicles, and will also be used in large-scale storage systems and electric forklifts.”
Nissan said it had “developed a system that quickly measures the performance of used batteries and plans to apply this innovative technology to batteries collected from all over Japan at the Namie plant”.
According to Nissan, the plant is the first new factory in Namie since the town was devastated by Japan’s March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
