Honda: Feeding electricity back into the grid
BIDIRECTIONAL CHARGING The V2X Suisse project group is researching how electric cars can help balance energy supply and demand. As part of a pioneering trial, Mobility is deploying 50 Honda e in Switzerland.
Honda is entering into a partnership with the V2X Suisse project group. The common goal is to test and demonstrate battery-electric vehicles and bidirectional charging technology.
The group of seven partners is working on the implementation of the project, which will start in September 2022 and is scheduled to run until the end of 2023. The other members of the project group are Mobility, EVTEC, Sun2wheel, Tiko, Novatlantis and ETH Zurich, with the support of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.
Feeding electricity back into the grid
The bidirectional charging function of the Honda e is used in the test. This allows electricity to be fed back into the grid as soon as the vehicle is parked.
To put bidirectional charging into practice, Honda is also making 35 Power Manager units available. These offer Mobility the opportunity to use the vehicle-to-grid function at several urban and suburban locations.
intelligent exchange of energy
The V2X Suisse test also includes the world's first large-scale deployment of the Combo CCS configuration with bidirectional function. The Honda e is the perfect electric vehicle for this.
The Power Manager is a bidirectional system that connects e-vehicles to a power grid and enables the distribution of electricity between these two systems. This makes it possible to realize an intelligent exchange of energy supply and demand.
Evaluate and regulate current flow
Sun2wheel, another project partner, developed a cloud-to-cloud IT platform. This can manage the available power for each vehicle in 15-minute cycles via the Power Manager units to evaluate and regulate the power flow.
The project will enable Honda to verify the relationship between frequency of vehicle use and V2G operation and also the impact on customer comfort.
