Honda: City runabout e as power bank
FUTURE In the V2X Suisse pilot project, Mobility is using fifty Honda e as power banks. When these electric vehicles are not being driven, they can return electricity and thus relieve the load on the power grid.
The signs point to energy transition, but the phase-out of nuclear power and fossil fuels will not happen overnight. However, the production of renewable energies is difficult to plan and control. This requires intelligent controls and intermediate storage.
Challenge in grid stability
The Mobility cooperative is 100 percent committed to electromobility and aims to have all of its approximately 3,000 vehicles electric by 2030. While increasing e-mobility is a positive trend, it increases the demand for electrical energy and will pose challenges in terms of grid stability.
The new V2X Suisse project aims to find ways to counteract the looming power shortage thanks to bidirectional charging. Seven companies led by Mobility are breaking new ground: the car importer Honda, the software platform Sun2wheel, the charging station developer Evtec, as well as the aggregator Tiko and Novatlantis as scientific companion.
The idea with V2X and bidirectional charging is that electric cars can not only consume electricity, but also feed electricity back into the grid.
Car supplies the power for the electric guitar
Purely electric cars, which are parked for up to 23 hours a day on average, then become mobile power banks that can be connected together to form a larger energy storage system. This allows distribution grid operators and households to tap power from the electric cars at peak times, while they recharge completely throughout the day at a favorable rate.
A car with eleven kilowatts of charging power supplies more electricity in one hour than the average Swiss household consumes in a day. So why not draw power for the washing machine, electric guitar, hair dryer or television from the electric car?
