Ground-breaking V2X trial showcases future of electric fleets
The venture explores how energy can be taken from EV batteries to power offices, machinery, homes and other vehicles.
What this trial will look to prove is that you can feed energy already paid for and in your vehicle batteries back into your buildings or machinery, meaning that you can buy electricity at off-peak rates, store it in your fleet, and then use it elsewhere in your business when that energy would be more expensive.
“For example, a business could charge its entire fleet overnight at off-peak rates, and if those vehicles are not needed the next day, it could take that cheap energy and use it to power offices during peak times, or even returning vehicles. The financial benefits of being able to do this are endless when contextualised with large electric vehicle fleets,” Neves said.”
Sorry Brydo I don’t call that “ground-breaking”. Just like the introduction of domestic Smart chargers they are not in place for the main benifit of the end user. Rather as electric vehicle popularity grows over the coming year, the demand on the energy grid increases. “Smart” management will become an intrinsic part of the grid. In theory V2X isn’t ground-breaking and in principle is no different to V2H but, on a larger scale.
Asides that, Fleet owners prefer the majority of their vehicles out on the road earning revenue for the company and have one or two spare vehicles, as most companies work on a JIT basis these days.
It’s like the UK is blind to whats happening or prefer to put a sticky plaster on, rather than invest in the grid modernising it or digitalising it as the EU are doing to cope with the ever increasing demand.