Smartville Inc., an EV battery-repurposing innovator, has been contracted to install a 500-kilowatt-hour battery energy storage system (BESS) at the Nissan North America headquarters in Franklin, Tenn. using second-life Nissan LEAF electric vehicle battery packs. 

Smartville launched the Smartville 360™ BESS today at RE+ 2023, North America’s largest clean energy industry event, in Las Vegas from which runs through Sept. 14.  Visit booth #16012 at RE+2023 to meet the Smartville team and learn more about how the company is transforming the future of energy storage and giving retired EV batteries a long second-life in the circular economy.  

“Smartville is proud to join Nissan in deploying our innovative and industry-leading second-life EV battery energy storage product, Smartville 360™,” said Antoni Tong, CEO of Smartville. “We’re targeting the growing volume of second-life EV batteries as a sustainable energy opportunity and, following several years of development, we are excited to have a commercial product ready for the market with the Smartville 360™.” 

Smartville will install two of its Smartville 360™ BESS units populated with battery packs supplied by Nissan 4R Energy U.S. 

The Smartville 360™ BESS is a first-to-market turnkey system for repurposing EV battery packs from multiple automakers and vehicles, allowing customers like Nissan to lower energy bills using a domestic and sustainable supply of retired batteries. Smartville 360™ provides critical safety, proprietary controls, and data processing systems that enable repurposed EV battery packs to cost-effectively achieve a long second-life as stationary energy storage. The Smartville 360™ building-block design is configurable for commercial, industrial, and utility-scale applications. 

The Smartville 360™ is expected to be installed and operational at Nissan’s North American Tennessee headquarters by the second quarter of 2024.