Driving rural energy access: A second-life application for electric-vehicle batteries

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Ambrose, Hanjiro ^a,c   Gershenson, Dimitry ^b,c   Gershenson, Alexander ^a   Kammen, Daniel ^b,c  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

battery; electric vehicles; energy access; lithium; minigrid; second life

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM;

BATTERY; ENERGY ACCESS; MINIGRID; RURAL ENERGY; SECOND-LIFE;

ELECTRIC VEHICLES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ENERGY; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84907698940     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/9/094004     Document Type: Article

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