New year, new bidirectional cars: 2025 edition
While 2023 was full of new vehicle announcements, last year carmakers took the strategic approach to refine and enhance their existing offerings instead – and that’s to be expected. The release of new models typically follows a multi-year planning and development cycle, often ranging from …
New year, new bidirectional cars: 2024 edition
2023 was a banner year for EVs in the US as a record number of drivers joined the zero-emissions club. Over 1 million new EV owners were won over by cars that delivered more smiles per mile. But with the US allocating more land to …
Is NACS compatible with bidirectional charging?
The first question that came to mind when our forward-thinking readers saw headlines claiming that Tesla had apparently won the charging war centered around compatibility with bidirectional charging functions like vehicle-to-home (V2H) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) power flow. Does the adoption of the “North American Charging …
V2G is on its way — if it can get past these roadblocks
Could the energy stored in an electric vehicle be used to supply electricity to the grid? Absolutely — it’s already happening. Several vehicle-to-grid (V2G) pilot projects are already underway in the United States, including trials by Toyota and General Motors. They join a host of …
New year, new bidirectional cars: 2023 edition
Last year, we explored the burgeoning bidirectional power flow space and listed all the American electric vehicles (EVs), past and present, that are capable of powering external loads from the get-go. Things are really heating up on the EV front these days – in 2020, …
V2L explained: What it is, how it works and what it means for the grid of the future
Icemakers, picnic tables, coffee machines—car makers have long tried to inject a bit of lifestyle into their designs, to varying degrees of success. But what if you could turn your electric vehicle (EV) into a portable battery pack able to power high-demand devices? A new …
Welcome to Europe’s first smart island
Porto Santo, a Portuguese idyll whose beaches are regularly voted best in the world, is transforming itself into an open-air laboratory. The North Atlantic island, some 500 miles east of Casablanca and roughly on the same latitude, gets a good amount of sun and wind. …
New year, new bidirectional cars
An EV with two-way charging to power external loads can change the entire energy dynamic. Will 2022 be the year that bidirectional cars become mainstream? …
dcbel glossary series: What is the grid?
We frequently refer to “the grid” when discussing energy, but how exactly can it be defined, and how is dcbel poised to add a new layer to the system? …
The value of smart grids
As smart home energy takes off, Australia provides some hints as to the changes that need to be made to decades-old infrastructure. …
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