Ford is starting a battery storage business to power data centers and the grid 

Amid Ford’s displacement distant from making ample electrical vehicles, the automaker is adding a caller merchandise enactment to find a location for its batteries.

Ford said Monday that alternatively of scuttling plans to build the batteries for those vehicles, it volition pivot that capacity into a caller artillery retention business. Those retention systems, which volition usage cheaper LFP batteries, volition beryllium utilized to powerfulness information centers and assistance buffer request connected the electrical grid. 

Ford says the artillery retention systems volition commencement shipping successful 2027 and that the institution plans to physique 20GWh of yearly capacity. 

Ford will articulation a number of automakers who are operating in oregon readying to participate the artillery retention space. Tesla has spent the past decennary selling artillery retention products and deploys astir 10GWh each quarter. General Motors besides has a acceptable of home and commercial battery retention products. 

Lisa Drake, vice president of exertion level programs and EV systems astatine Ford, said the “predominant” accidental for the caller concern volition beryllium commercialized grid customers. But information centers will beryllium secondary, and then Ford expects to connection immoderate location retention products, Drake said. 

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