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After at least five years of transporting you around the country, car batteries will now spend their retirement making you tea and toast and running your washing machine.
Used electric car batteries are being converted into home energy storage units which can be linked to rooftop solar panels to keep lights on and devices running when the sun goes down.
The initiative between Honda and Snam, an Italian energy infrastructure company, will reuse or recycle thousands of batteries from electric and hybrid cars and vans across Europe, with single batteries installed in homes and banks of them linked to wind farms to store electricity.
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