Nissan has introduced it can launch ‘reasonably priced’ on-board bi-directional charging on chosen EVs from 2026. The Automobile to Grid (V2G) expertise, which is able to permit EV homeowners to make use of electrical energy saved of their automobile’s battery to energy their houses or promote it again into the grid, will launch within the UK initially, adopted by different markets in Europe. The venture is underpinned by Nissan’s current V2G analysis, with the corporate having performed round 40 pilot initiatives worldwide over the previous decade.
Following a profitable year-long venture at Nottingham College, Nissan has change into the primary automobile firm to realize G99 Grid code certification with an AC-based resolution wanted to produce electrical energy into the UK nationwide vitality provide. Underneath the title of Nissan Vitality, the corporate mentioned its purpose is to roll-out V2G expertise throughout markets in Europe and past, empowering shoppers with both AC or DC-based V2G options, in alignment with native infrastructure and regulatory necessities.
In line with Nissan, prospects utilizing its on-board bi-directional V2G expertise can minimize the annual value of powering an EV by 50 per cent. The identical expertise can also be mentioned to scale back internet CO2 emissions from charging by 30 per cent per 12 months, per EV for the typical UK family. The corporate added that EVs geared up with V2G expertise can play a ‘essential’ position 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 programs Nissan plans to supply, the AC-bidirectional system licensed within the UK will leverage an built-in on-board charger to ship a decrease value 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 at present. In addition to decreasing the price of entry, Nissan’s V2G system will give prospects full management and adaptability over their vitality by way of a devoted app.
“The expertise we’re bringing to prospects is a possible game-changer for the way we view the automobile,” mentioned Hugues Desmarchelier, Nissan vp, International Electrification Ecosystem and EV Programmes. “Not simply as a way of getting from A to B, however as a cell vitality storage unit, able to saving individuals cash, supporting the transition of our vitality programs 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). Throughout the trial, Nissan labored with Dreev, a three way partnership between EDF and NUVVE. The corporate was accountable for information assortment, buyer profiling and setting the charging and discharging plan by analysing info from the wall field. Enovates, a Belgian-based mobility expertise firm, developed the wall field, or Electrical Automobile Provide Tools (EVSE), together with set-up and check certification. Nissan mentioned that the wall field acts because the system hub, sending and receiving info on vitality demand and provide from the Dreev cloud, and directing the automobile 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 Inventive Vitality Houses, 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 person expertise, and develop the expertise availability to extra prospects.
