<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-08-26T13:36:10Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/9871A373-8D92-4C0C-9BF6-8F1B44E9F7D7" ns1:id="9871A373-8D92-4C0C-9BF6-8F1B44E9F7D7"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/A9B00E02-BA47-43AF-B10F-6ACAEAE72138" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/473BC5E8-A5AC-4AD9-B18A-4E4FACBF1C66" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/473BC5E8-A5AC-4AD9-B18A-4E4FACBF1C66" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2013-10-31T00:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/2EB40EE3-AE93-40B7-A012-0F9B1E6C5799" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2013-07-31T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">131398</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>A New Lease of Life for Expired Electric Car Batteries</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Feasibility Studies</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>This project will investigate the potential to use expired batteries from electric cars as the energy storage batteries of a stationary electrical energy storage device.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>