General Electric and Nissan agreed to do a two-year research together to look into how electric vehicles can become part of homes and buildings and their impact once millions of them are on the road. Projects that will answer the collaboration’s two focus areas include a study on how the Nissan Leaf all-electric car can Continue reading →
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There are some among the powers-that-be who are salivating over the thought of vast parking lots full of electric vehicles, each plugged into the smart grid. Every so often this salivation bubbles up with articles glowing with the possibility of your electric car powering your house. So far that’s been little more than a dream Continue reading →
Selling power from an electric vehicle’s battery back to the power grid has been touted for years as one of the future advantages for this new class of cars. But the reality is much more complicated. There are issues at the levels of the carmaker, utility and grid operator that would have to be resolved Continue reading →
The more electric cars Britain has, the lower everyone’s power bills will be. And far from overloading the grid, tomorrow’s electric vehicles will boost renewable energy sources and even earn their owners money. Those are the counter-intuitive claims of researchers working on new “vehicle-to-grid” (V2G) technologies. Every electric vehicle has a powerful battery, and nine Continue reading →
The ZigBee Alliance and the SAE are collaborating on ZigBee Smart Energy standard-development efforts aimed at supporting plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and enabling vehicle-to-grid (V2G) communication. The ZigBee Alliance and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) say they are collaborating on ZigBee Smart Energy standard-development efforts aimed at supporting plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and enabling Continue reading →
What is Vehicle to Grid Also called Vehicle 2 Grid or V2G, Vehicle to Grid is the process of connecting your electric car into the transmission electricity network. If you have an electric vehicle then you will definitely want to consider setting up V2G through a simple metering system and contract with your local electricity Continue reading →
Cars could be the solution to the intermittent nature of wind power if a multimillion European project beginning on a Danish island proves successful. The project on the holiday island of Bornholm will use the batteries of parked electric cars to store excess energy when the wind blows hard, and then feed electricity back into Continue reading →
