Battery recycler Redwood Materials kicked off the trend last year with a new energy-storage division and a project that attached old EV packs to a Crusoe data center in Nevada. Then Ford said it was repurposing some of its battery-manufacturing capacity to make grid-scale batteries. And now GM is announcing its own ' arguably more ambitious ' plans for an energy-storage system (ESS). GM unveiled on Tuesday two new phases in its attack on the energy-storage market. The biggest swing by far is GM's new partnership with energy-storage startup Peak Energy. For that partnership, GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry tailored for grid-scale deployments. 'The way we're getting into the market is the easy way, through ESS,' Kurt Kelty, vice president of battery and sustainability at GM, told TechCrunch. 'The performance characteristics are just what is needed in that market.' GM wouldn't share with TechCrunch how much money it is investing in this energy-storage...
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