Electric vehicles will be power plants on wheels, providing backup power for homes and the grid
, to test what he called"managed charging." In an ideal world, EVs would discharge energy to the grid during peak demand hours from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., and charge outside that window when solar is abundant and cheap, he said.
Mark Bole, GM's head of V2X, or vehicle-to-everything, and battery solutions, said such a scenario isn't far off. GM Energy has a cloud-based tool that manages charging and energy data, which could connect with utilities and alert customers via a mobile app when to juice up. Aside from PG&E, the automaker is also working with utilities like New York's Con Edison and the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative.
GM Energy also rolled out a partnership with SunPower, a major US residential solar installer, that will offer customers a home-energy system that includes solar panels and stationary battery-energy storage. It's not unlike The Ford F-150 Lightning also has bidirectional charging, which proved useful after Hurricane Ian pummeled southwest Florida's power grid. Ford CEO Jim Farley
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