Vehicle Grid Integration (VGI)

The yearly CAV Canada (Connected and Automated Vehicles) conference bringing Smart Mobility innovators and leaders to discuss and drive the future was held on Sep. 28, 2023, in Ottawa.  The conference was preceded by a one-day demonstration of Smart Mobility technology by #TCXpo hosted at the Area X.O (a 1,866-acre, secure, fenced, and gated private facility in Ottawa) showing …

V2G will play an important role in the Smart City of the Future.  Read More »

Lately, many Light-Duty EV OEMs have decided to support a new shining object: Tesla’s NACS plug type.  SAE has also decided to start standardizing NACS as an additional US standard (in addition to the already existing SAE J1772, CCS1, SAE J3068). However, NACS does not support 3-phase AC charging!! For Light-Duty cars this may be …

NACS and 3-Phase AC Charging in North America.  Read More »

Today exactly 7 years ago a V2G installation went online on the Danish grid and started to bid and deliver Frequency Regulation services via V2G to the Danish grid.  Some data: ·      Site: Frederiksberg Forsyning – a utility in Copenhagen·      10 Nissan e-NV200 bidirectional EV vans·      10 Enel (MagnumCap) bidirectional +-10 kW charging stations·      One Aggregator from Nuvve·      Providing Frequency …

Congratulations Nuvve and Frederiksberg Forsyning – 7 Years of V2G Operation Read More »

Lots of talk and opinions lately about V2G, V2X, V2H, V2L, SB 233 … and many press releases on “Bidirectional” EVs/EVSEs. Let’s look at a V2G reality: The world’s longest-running V2G deployment,running continuously since 2016 (Fact – not opinion) In 2013, the Nikola project was started in Denmark to integrate electric vehicles intelligently into the …

A V2G Star  Read More »

Lots of chats lately about V2G, V2X, V2H, V2L, SB 233, and more, and many EV OEMs announcing new “Bidirectional” EVs.  Meaning:V2G – Vehicle-to-GridV2H – Vehicle-to-HomeV2B – Vehicle-to-BuildingV2L – Vehicle-to-LoadV2X (don’t even want to go there) 😎  However, there seems to be some confusion about what the “Bidirectional” terminology really means.  Some educational points may …

Bidirectional Electric Vehicles Read More »