HONDA AND V2X SUISSE CONSORTIUM TO ADVANCE VEHICLE-TO-GRID CHARGING TECHNOLOGY IN SWITZERLAND

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• V2X Suisse consortium to examine how EVs can assistance harmony energy demand and supply

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• 50 Honda e electrical vehicles will be a part of car or truck-sharing company for groundbreaking trial in Switzerland

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• Honda Energy Manager bi-directional charging technological innovation will be utilized to feed power back from EVs into the grid

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As section of the next stage into the electricity administration business enterprise, Honda is partnering with the V2X Suisse consortium to reveal the important part of electric automobiles (EVs) and bi-directional charging technologies in the long term of energy administration.

Honda will source 50 Honda e electric motor vehicles to Switzerland’s car or truck sharing operator, Mobility. The Honda e units will be used as component of a car or truck sharing fleet in a pioneering demo which works by using the Honda e’s bi-directional charging operate to feed energy back again to the grid when the vehicles are not in use for sharing. To allow bi-directional charging, Honda is also furnishing 35 Honda Power Supervisor models. These will produce car or truck-to-grid (V2G) electricity recovery functionality for Mobility, at different city and suburban websites throughout Switzerland.

The V2X Suisse trial includes the world’s initial mass-deployment of the COMBO-CCS (Blended Charging System) configuration with bi-directional functionality: presently Honda e is the only electrical motor vehicle in the European industry to allow for the two charging and discharging, as regular, for the European charging technique CCS, earning the Honda e the perfect automobile to join the fleet.

Honda Power Supervisor is a bi-directional method that connects EVs to a electricity grid, enabling the selection and distribution of energy in between the two. This will allow for clever balancing of the offer and desire of strength, which includes the far better use of renewable resources and supports the stabilisation of the grid.

In this job, a complete of 50 Honda e units will be allocated to 40 stations throughout Switzerland. A one Honda e can feed up to 20 kilowatts of electric power back into the grid when plugged into a bi-directional charging station. This not only regulates energy to stabilise the grid throughout intervals of high demand and minimise bottlenecks in the distribution of electrical power, but also lessens the need to have for highly-priced grid expansions as need for EV charging raises.

Applying a cloud-to-cloud IT platform produced by fellow consortium member sun2wheel, the Honda Power Supervisor models can control the accessible energy for each EV in 15 minute cycles to evaluate and regulate the movement of energy. The plan will permit Honda to validate the connection between auto utilization frequency and V2G procedure, real V2G operation time and frequency, and how this impacts on consumer advantage.

Honda aims to develop a sustainable culture with zero environmental impact by connecting electrified mobility products and power providers, even though contributing to the ‘freedom of mobility’ and ‘expanding the use of renewable strength. Not only the smart electrical vehicle, but improvements these types of as the bi-directional Honda Ability Supervisor charging technique will grow to be significantly crucial in a foreseeable future carbon neutral culture the place each EVs and the use of renewable electricity will develop into commonplace.

By a true-planet demonstration, Honda can carry out info collection and evaluation of car sharing and V2G battery vitality solutions, which will guide to the growth of Honda’s long run electrical power products and services.

The true demonstration of this task will start off from September 2022, and will operate right up until the finish of 2023, features consortium associates Mobility, EVTEC, sun2wheel, tiko, Novatlantis and ETH Zurich, and is supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Vitality.