Electric cars could power buildings and still have energy for drive home

Vehicle-to-Grid operations can extend battery life in electric vehicles, suggests University of Warwick research

Dr Kotub Uddin, WMG

Dr Kotub Uddin, WMG

The long-term battery ageing test set up at WMG’s Energy Innovation Centre

The long-term battery ageing test set up at WMG’s Energy Innovation Centre

Stored energy from electric vehicles (EVs) can be used to power large buildings while leaving enough power for the vehicles to complete their daily journeys, suggests research undertaken by the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick. 

WMG’s Energy and Electrical Systems group and Jaguar Land Rover have demonstrated that vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology can be intelligently utilised to take enough energy from idle EV batteries to be pumped into the grid and...

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