Nissan has introduced it should launch ‘reasonably priced’ on-board bi-directional charging on chosen EVs from 2026. The Car to Grid (V2G) expertise, which can permit EV homeowners to make use of electrical energy saved of their automotive’s battery to energy their properties or promote it again into the grid, will launch within the UK initially, adopted by different markets in Europe. The challenge is underpinned by Nissan’s current V2G analysis, with the corporate having carried out round 40 pilot tasks worldwide over the previous decade.
Following a profitable year-long challenge at Nottingham College, Nissan has change into the primary automotive firm to realize G99 Grid code certification with an AC-based answer wanted to produce electrical energy into the UK nationwide vitality provide. Below the identify of Nissan Power, the corporate mentioned its goal is to roll-out V2G expertise throughout markets in Europe and past, empowering customers with both AC or DC-based V2G options, in alignment with native infrastructure and regulatory necessities.
In line with Nissan, clients utilizing its on-board bi-directional V2G expertise can lower the annual price of powering an EV by 50 per cent. The identical expertise can also be mentioned to cut back internet CO2 emissions from charging by 30 per cent per yr, per EV for the typical UK family. The corporate added that EVs geared up with V2G expertise can play a ‘essential’ function in integrating and rising the combination of renewables into the vitality provide, by storing electrical energy generated by wind or photo voltaic, and directing it again into the grid when wanted and thus decreasing dependency on fossil fuels.
As one of many bi-directional methods Nissan plans to supply, the AC-bidirectional system licensed within the UK will leverage an built-in on-board charger to ship a decrease price of entry, permitting the expertise to be accessible to extra individuals. Nissan mentioned it goals to supply its AC bi-directional charger at a worth similar to a mono-directional charger accessible immediately. In addition to reducing the price of entry, Nissan’s V2G system will give clients full management and adaptability over their vitality by way of a devoted app.
“The expertise we’re bringing to clients is a possible game-changer for a way we view the automotive,” mentioned Hugues Desmarchelier, Nissan vice chairman, International Electrification Ecosystem and EV Programmes. “Not simply as a method of getting from A to B, however as a cell vitality storage unit, able to saving individuals cash, supporting the transition of our vitality methods away from fossil fuels and bringing us nearer to a carbon-free future.”
The V2G UK trial has been partly funded by the UK authorities’s Superior Propulsion Centre UK (APC). In the course of the trial, Nissan labored with Dreev, a three way partnership between EDF and NUVVE. The corporate was answerable for information assortment, buyer profiling and setting the charging and discharging plan by analysing data from the wall field. Enovates, a Belgian-based mobility expertise firm, developed the wall field, or Electrical Car Provide Gear (EVSE), together with set-up and take a look at certification. Nissan mentioned that the wall field acts because the system hub, sending and receiving data on vitality demand and provide from the Dreev cloud, and directing the automotive to cost or discharge electrical energy at a set quantity to the house or grid. Nottingham College supplied the bottom of operations at its on-campus Artistic Power Properties, and supported educational analysis all through the path.
Wanting forward, Nissan mentioned that it’s persevering with to work with these and different companions to attain the mandatory grid certification in different markets, develop a seamless consumer expertise, and broaden the expertise availability to extra clients.
