Vehicle-to-Grid

One of the big problems with intermittent power sources like wind and solar is the difficulty of storing energy. But if we ever get a lot of electric vehicles, we’ll have a lot of batteries—and at any time, most of these vehicles are parked. So, they can be connected to the power grid.

This leads to the concept of vehicle-to-grid or V2G. In a V2G system, electric vehicles can connect to the grid, with electricity flowing from the grid to the vehicle or back. Cars can help solve the energy st...