Evolium’s second-life battery for residential applications with its own monitoring system. The system tells the battery owner when a cell needs to be replaced.
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By ESS news
Founded in 2024 and supported by the Swiss Innovation Association, Evolium Technologies is a Swiss second-life battery start-up with its own unique approach to battery recycling. It’s a modular approach, as Evolium founder and CEO Alexandre Staub said ESS news.
Evolium runs a subscription-based module exchange program, where (mostly) private customers can exchange used and old modules for fully functional second life modules. All cells used in the batteries are tested internally by the company, which Staub says is also a USP cell testing is an area where many second-life battery providers are struggling, he said.
“Most of our team are robotics experts, and they are developing more robots than batteries,” he said, explaining that the team is developing robots to test the cells on a large scale. “The robots are fairly cheap and can perform this task: testing the cells and assessing which cell can get a second life and which cell cannot.”
Evolium typically works with INR18650 cylindrical cells and once these cells pass testing they can be reassembled into batteries for a second life.
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