Grid revenue fantasies holding back rollout of electric car V2G technology in Australia

Vehicle to grid technology is being held back in Australia by unrealistic expectations about the money that can be made from electric vehicles providing grid services, one expert says.
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Promise of powering homes and grid from EV batteries becoming a reality

The combination of more EVs equipped with bidirectional charging, growth of equipment makers like Montreal’s dcbel Energy, and some forward-thinking utilities is making it happen

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Fermata Energy integrates its V2X platform with BorgWarner’s bidirectional chargers


Bidirectional charging pioneer Fermata Energy has integrated its Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) services platform with bidirectional EV chargers manufactured by BorgWarner. The integration of Fermata’s software with BorgWarner’s hardware, including both 60 kW and 125 kW UL-certified chargers, enables Fermata’s platform to optimize V2X bidirectional charging commands with a Combined Charging System (CCS) communication protocol. Fermata is… Read more »

SAE International updates standard for bidirectional EV/charger communication


The SAE International Hybrid Communication and Interoperability Task Force has completed an extensive revision of SAE Standard J2847/2: Communication Between Plug-in Vehicles and Off-Board DC Chargers. This update is the first step towards the goal of enabling EV and charging station providers to use the same communication code for bidirectional DC charging, including Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G)… Read more »

Vertexcom Technologies supports V2G standard in its chipset


Vertexcom Technologies, a smart charging communication chip design company, has announced support for ISO 15118-20 Bidirectional Power Transfer (BPT), also known as Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) transfer, in its chipsets. Vertexcom’s HomePlug GreenPHY SECC chipset MSE1021+MSEX24-i and EVCC chipset MSE1022+MSEX25-i support the implementation of ISO 15118-20 BPT. Drivers can save or make money by using electricity stored… Read more »

EV charger installation expert: Residential V2X could have a great future


Bidirectional charging and the vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-grid applications it enables (collectively known as V2X) have the potential to turbocharge the EV industry, both by providing valuable features for drivers and by making EVs into an asset for the electrical grid. At the moment, V2X is being used at commercial scale only in certain applications—mostly in… Read more »

Will California’s bidirectional EV charging mandate bring Tesla on board with bidirectional charging?


California Governor Gavin Newsom is just one of many who have called bidirectional charging a “game-changing” technology. Going bi enables vehicle-to-grid applications, which not only provide nifty features to EV drivers, but are widely seen as an essential tool for smoothly integrating large numbers of EVs into the electrical grid. That’s why the California legislature… Read more »

Rideshare/charging provider Revel: CCS or NACS, EVs need bidirectional charging capabilities


Amid the giddy rush to adopt Tesla’s NACS charging system, a few voices in the wilderness can be heard crying, “But what about bidirectional charging?” Many see bidirectional charging, which enables V2G and related technologies, as a necessary part of the future EV ecosystem (California may soon mandate the capability for all new EVs). Vehicle-to-home, which… Read more »

EV charge management isn’t just for fleet depots: Q&A with Qmerit founder and CEO


Q&A with Qmerit founder and CEO Tracy K. Price EV chargers aren’t the kind of hardware that’s typically installed by the customer—whether that customer is a homeowner who’s charging one EV, or a company with dozens of charging sites. An EV charger deployment generally requires the services of an installer (and larger projects sometimes involve… Read more »