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Four Lives From One Mine
The quiet economics of second-life EV batteries
The 'batteries are wasteful' story collapses the moment you follow the battery past the car. A 70%-capacity retired EV pack still has 56kWh of storage left — three home batteries' worth. Inside the second-life storage market, the policy lever Australia is missing, and why one mine produces four useful lives.
Your inverter is undercounting your battery savings by 30%
What I found when I stopped trusting the official telemetry and measured the battery state of charge directly
14 months in: what we know now that we didn't know on day 1
A 13 kW solar + 16 kWh battery system, an EV, a dishwasher, and the things only time and data could tell us
Toilet Paper, Not Diesel: Australia's First All-Electric Freight Run Changes the Maths
85% lower energy costs. 25 minutes faster. The numbers diesel can't argue with.
Australia's first end-to-end all-electric inter-city freight delivery — and what it means for the energy transition.
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