By Jack Fifield

A man has built a rechargeable battery pack big enough to power his whole home - using the batteries from discarded vapes .

Electronics engineer Chris Doel, 26, stripped the lithium batteries from 500 binned vapes to create a single one large enough to run his entire house electrics for eight hours.

He wired the 2.5 kWh battery into his home with an inverter and ran all electrical components entirely off-grid for eight hours, including the microwave, kettle, and all lighting.

Chris, who works for Jaguar Land Rover, got the idea after watching friends just bin the depleted vapes - despite them all containing rechargeable batteries .

He said: “Some of my mates were puffing on them. But as soon as they were empty, they’d have a little blinking light, and they’d throw

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