GM is using its Ultium battery tech for a lot more than EVs
utility for another V2H pilot program that will let you run your household appliances off of your EV's battery during blackouts. Eventually, the company plans to add V2G capabilities, which will allow you to sell excess energy produced by the solar panels back to your local utility.
For businesses, Ultium Commercial may help ease the transition to an electrified fleet. Many such existing GM customers,"have fleets of vehicles are looking to electrify their fleets, but aren't really aware of how to set up the charging infrastructure, how to manage their energy," Mark Bole, vice president and Head of V2X Battery Solutions at GM said during an embargoed press briefing last week.
"There are more power failures in the US than any other country in the industrialized world," Travis Hester, vice president of GM EV Growth Operations, added."There were 25,000 blackouts in California alone last year, over 15 and a half billion dollars of lost commerce, just in California.
GM is also transferring its public charging station network, Ultium Charge 360, over to GM Energy. Charge 360 launched in 2021 in Washington, Florida and California. GM partnered with Blink Charging, ChargePoint, EV Connect, EVgo, FLO, Greenlots and SemaConnect to streamline their collective 60,000-plug network of 350 kW Level 3 DC fast chargers and provide"
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