Unlocking Battery Second Life: Smarter Diagnostics for EV Reuse | SAE Summit 2026

As EV batteries retire from the road, giving them a second life in stationary energy storage is one of the industry's biggest circularity opportunities, but it's riskier than it looks. In this talk from the SAE Battery Manufacturing & Simulation Summit (June 2026), Qnovo Co-founder and VP of Technology, Dania Ghantous, explains why standard metrics like cycle count, state-of-health, and odometer readings fail to catch the small but critical fraction of retired cells with latent defects, and how real-time, cell-level diagnostics can detect early damage that traditional battery management systems miss entirely.