Knowledge transfer project aims to extend life of smart batteries
Sheffield University is working with the R&D team at Mobile Power on developing longer life ‘smart’ batteries and exploring how they could be given a second life.
Based in Sheffield, Mobile Power has designed and provides pay-per-use smart batteries dubbed MOPO batteries that – at the time of writing - have been rented over 16,000,000 times by customers in in off-grid parts of Africa and parts of the continent where the grid is unstable.
The portable batteries - rented through a cloud-based platform rental system - are charged at solar charging stations before being delivered to customers, which removes the need for traditional diesel generators and reduces energy costs by up to 75 per cent.
MOPO hubs currently operate operating in eight countries, including Sierra Leone where 20 per cent of household income is spent on lighting and mobile phone charging.
Mobile Power’s solutions comprise the MOPO 50 (50Wh), which provides up to 10 phone charges and can provide power to TVs, radios and fans; and the MOPO Max (1000Wh) that is suitable for e-mobility, plus fridges and freezers - or acting as static storage - in second life applications.
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