Audi researching bidirectional charging technology

August 20, 2020 David Brown Audi, ENVIROCAR Guide, Motoring Minute Comments Off on Audi researching bidirectional charging technology

Increasing network stability, lowering electricity costs, and contributing to climate protection – that is the vision that Audi and the Hager Group are pursuing. The incorporation of the electric car into the domestic grid is at the core of an innovative research project on bidirectional charging. This offers major advantages in combination with a photovoltaic system in particular. Excess PV electricity can be stored temporarily and output as needed.

Audi is working on making its vehicle fleet CO2-neutral by 2050. They will be launching around 20 fully electric models by 2025.

In their home country Germany this year renewable energies contributed more than 50 percent to the electricity mix for the first time.

Audi is now developing a system, of bi-directional charging so that you can use the car battery for short periods to run your home or even put power back into the grid. Nissan has pioneered this system in their LEAF.

One way to benefit from this technology is for consumers to charge up at night when it is cheap and then run their house from their car in the peak period when electricity is more expensive.

Energy could also be put back into the grid to help overcome times when solar and wind powered devices are not producing enough power.

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