Reuse of Electric vehicle batteries (Audi e-tron)

Project description
With the support of the Audi Environmental Foundation, Nunam was also able to deploy a few prototype with used electric vehicle batteries from the Audi e-tron. Nunam has implemented 3x prototypes that run on used electric vehicle battery modules from prototype vehicles from the Audi e-tron (which was their first fully electric vehicle). These were batteries from pre-production vehicles which have been used in the vehicle development phase by Audi AG. The battery modules have been tested, characterised and integrated into an energy storage system (ESS) by Nunam in Bangalore, India. The purpose of these prototypes was to run more complex productive use applications that utilise the superior quality and performance of these battery modules. The local pilot implementation partners are The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM).

There had been 3x second life prototypes deployed that run on Audi e-tron battery modules. Two technically identical smaller systems 5 (kWh) in India across two different locations (at a solar Nanogrid in Uttar Pradesh and another one used in a community center for a tribal community in the Indian state of Karnataka). The third prototype is a larger 20 kWh system deployed at a horticultural show (“Landesgartenschau”) in Ingolstadt, Germany.