In my opinion, without V2G charging, the grid will struggle to cope with electricity demand in the next five to ten years.
There’s no way that V2G becomes commercially viable in the next 5-10 years. Or, let me put that differently. There’s no way that the market share of new V2G compatible EVs is high enough in 10 years that it’d make any difference. If they come with “normal” batteries, the degradation is enough to put people off, if they come with packs that can handle it, they’re too expensive to be widespread (in ten years, the technology is cutting edge and just released – just look at which cars are properly fast charge capable and how much they cost – it’ll take time for that tech to drip down to lower price models – 300kw charging of the Taycan, for example).
Here’s another thing. We pay taxes for exactly that. I’m not quite sure where the argument could be made that we as taxpayers are required to supply the infrastructure that’s needed for the Government to meet their “no ICE” targets. That’s nonsense. We pay taxes, those taxes go (obviously amongst other things) into Infrastructure. It’s the governments job to create the situation where banning all ICE cars is viable, and that very obviously includes spending money on reinforcing the energy grid.
Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19, VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23
Current: Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
Next: we'll see what's available in 2028.