We love collaborating with others to ensure that our sustainable impact helps the most people for the longest period of time. We’ve embarked on a partnership with the battery experts at Gouach, to validate whether their repairable electric battery is a good fit for our e-vehicles and the overall Dott vision. We’re still getting rolling with the results, but so far things look promising.
After reading a study about micromobility batteries that were dumped, Co-founder of Gouach, Alexandre Vallette, decided to prove that an alternative type of battery could be more eco-friendly and available at a lower cost. “We realized that battery waste comes from batteries not being designed to be serviced or repaired,” Vallette says, “and that 80% of ‘damaged’ batteries still have capacity to power vehicles.”
The Gouach battery is modular, so each part can be dismantled and fixed if issues arise. Rather than discard batteries with minor defects, with Gouach batteries, our maintenance team can more easily spot the problem, fix it, and get the battery back into our operations. As a result, we can extend the lifetime of our batteries and significantly reduce the number of batteries we have to find second-life applications for as they keep being looped back into our own operations.