How EVs Could Provide Renewable Energy Storage To Support the Grid

Optimism around the growth of the electric vehicle EV market has faltered in recent months as consumer uptake has grown at a slower pace than previously anticipated. This has led several automakers to reduce their EV investments in the mid-term until the market becomes more stable. Further, Tesla’s recent decision to cancel the rollout of a large-scale EV charging network in the U.S. has led to greater uncertainty in the sector.

, as some states are already testing bidirectional charging to see how effective it is. For example, the transport company Zum is running a pilot project on its EV school bus fleet in Oakland, California in which it sells power stored in electric bus batteries back to the California utility grid. It is the first school district to test vehicle-to-grid V2G bidirectional charging and, if successful, the technology could be rolled out in other districts across the U.S. Zum believes that up to 2.

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