Friday 24 July 2020

Audi develops new tech to power houses with EVs

Audi will soon launch a new technology, which could allow its electric vehicle (EV) e-tron model to supply a home with enough energy to be powered for one week.

This will be feasible with a bidirectional charging technology, also known as vehicle-to-home (V2H), which enables the vehicle to supply the stored electricity to the house.

If the customer has a photovoltaic system installed at home, the EV battery will also serve as a temporary storage medium for the domestically generated electricity.

Martin Dehm, Technical Project Manager for Bidirectional Charging at Audi: "Looking ahead, we want to make this potential accessible and make the electric car part of the energy transition as an energy storage device on four wheels."

The technology, the result of a partnership of the German carmaker with the electrical installations supplier Hager Group, promises to reduce the home owner's electricity costs and increase the network's stability.

Ulrich Reiner, Project Manager at Hager Group, said: "Using the battery of EVs to contribute to climate protection while lowering electricity costs at the same time is a vision that we have found fascinating since the very beginning."

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