CATL batteries free to a Good home

[antiscab]

Hi All,

I'm in Darwin for the next couple of days, and Hitachi Energy have a couple of surplus CATL 166V 280Ah LFP batteries that have some dead cells.
Located in East Arm.
I haven't seen the internals, but if there's anyone local interested I'm sure they would be happy to see them go to a good home.

Battery dimensions: 1150 long, 800 wide, 260 deep
pallet/shipping dimensions: 1300 X 1040 X 450

If they're still here after I leave, I'll probably look into transporting them to Perth.

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[jonescg]

Francess might need a new home storage battery...

I'm sure there's at least 16 of these for a home storage battery?

[T1 Terry]

When you say a couple, are there only 2 available? I was thinking I might be able build up a good battery for the planned Lexus GS450h conversion with them ....

T1 Terry

[antiscab]

These batteries were originally offered to Charles Darwin University if it aligned with their research (I hadn't realized there was a research aspect when I posted this up)
CDU doesn't presently have anything that does align, but I've proposed a few things I would like to research - all BMS and multi-level inverter related as I am incidentally doing some research.

There are 2 x CATL 166 V 280 Ah nominal batteries with some dead cells - these are probably ideal for battery replacement for a 144v nominal EV conversion. They would be Energy storage grade I suspect, rather than EV grade. Not sure what research angle I would propose there though.
There's also 6 x Samsung SDI modules which I believe are 22s 130 Ah NMC though will have to confirm - these ones are probably more relevant to the research I'm doing and probably align more so with Hitachi's interests.

There's also the logistical challenge of shipping them from Darwin

[jonescg]

Well Matt if you are the conduit to access them, keep us posted. I reckon home storage is the better option for these cells, but the R&D condition is a bit silly given we all know exactly what these cells are capable of.
Cheers,
Chris

[T1 Terry]

Thanks Matt, if there were more than 2, then it would be viable to spread the freight cost over each battery.

T1 Terry

[cr12330]

Hi, just wondering if these were still available in Darwin? thank you Joseph

[antiscab]

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