Ford, BMW, and Honda’s vehicle-to-grid company is live.
EVs have big lithium-ion batteries, and often those batteries can send energy back to the grid, just as they pull energy from it when charging. Last year, the three automakers created ChargeScape to turn the bidirectional charging capabilities of millions of EVs into a potential business. And now the whole thing is operational. According to Ford:
ChargeScape’s technology wirelessly connects to electric vehicles and, working with participating utilities, manages home charging efforts when the grid is constrained and even can send energy back into the power grid when needed.
