V2G

ford f-150 lightning pickup truck in the woods

Ford program helps customers manage home energy—with help from EVs

Eligible F-150 Lightning owners will be able to charge their vehicles with lower-cost electricity.

Plug attached to school bus connecting it to the power grid

How Massachusetts is testing V2X tech

Leaders of a new vehicle-to-everything initiative in Massachusetts see the tech as a possible “silver-bullet solution” to growing energy demand.

Jordyn Grzelewski

Gif of vehicle-to-grid charging, showing energy flow from car to grid

Electric Vehicles

ChargeScape and Leap partner to scale virtual power plants for electric vehicles

“There’s a chance for these EVs to be very responsive to grid needs and reduce loads at critical times when the grid is under stress,” software platform Leap’s CEO tells Tech Brew.

Jordyn Grzelewski

Electric Vehicles

Why electric school buses are the ‘ideal asset’ to send energy back to the grid

The clean-energy sector sees electric school buses as a prime candidate for implementing V2G technologies because they’re essentially “a very large battery on wheels.”

Jordyn Grzelewski

A map of the US lit up by the electric grid with an EV charger plugged into the center of the map

Electric Vehicles

Here’s how EVs could actually make the US electric grid more resilient

Despite concerns about EVs overtaxing an already strained grid, there’s optimism that emerging tech could leverage car batteries for the greater good.

Jordyn Grzelewski