Vehicle-to-grid

Powering our vehicles with electricity will enable green, sustainable fuels such as wind and solar to replace much of our current use of liquid petroleum fuels. Smart electrical grids will both charge the vehicles and occasionally use power from the vehicles. This will help to maintain the stability of the grid and reduce the occurrence of brownouts and blackouts.

News

• 2012.03.09 - BBC News - Tsunami- Nissan's converter enables an electric car to power your house
• 2008.03.17 - What’s a “Smart Grid” and why’s it coming to Boulder?
• 2007.12.27 - How Electric Cars Could Save the Grid. Interesting video about linear motor in a water park ride.
• 2007.09.12 - PG&E and Tesla to Research Smart Recharging Vehicle-to-Grid Technology
• 2007.07.00 - Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (download e-book). Examines the technical and economic feasibility of achieving a U.S. economy with zero-CO2 emissions without nuclear power.
• 2005.06.06 - Seattle Vehicle to Grid Symposium

Videos

• 2008.04.22 - Plug-in Hybrids Power the Electrical Grid - PeakMoment - Professor Andy Frank's vision is for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) to be charged on green renewable power from solar panels built into the roofs of our parking lots. This would allow the vehicles to be used as mobile batteries, contributing solar power to the electrical grid, and helping to "load balance" the demand. At home, the same vehicle batteries can help power a house (vehicle-to-house V2H), or feed energy back to the grid (vehicle-to-grid V2G).
• 2007.08.21 - V2G vehicle to grid potential
• 2007.06.15 - Google.org RechargeIT: Plug-in Hybrids

See Also

• WikiPedia:Vehicle-to-grid