How to benefit from Vehicle-To-Home charging

What is Vehicle-to-Home charging?

Vehicle-to-Home charging allows you to use your EV’s battery as an energy storage system, working hand-in-hand with a home solar power system to store excess electricity.

This means that your car’s battery can operate as a home battery system, just like the Tesla Powerwall, allowing solar energy from a solar panel system to be captured during daylight hours and used throughout the evening. 

Estimates suggest that our cars are parked up for around 95% of the time, so V2H charging allows EV drivers to capitalise on this by using their cars as an energy storage battery to power their home.

Will Vehicle-to-Home charging become more common?

As more and more people make the switch to electric vehicles and solar power, V2H is something that we expect to see becoming far more popular, as a practical way to support your home energy use.

Trials are currently underway in the UK to see how V2H could benefit people who own both an EV and solar panels, and it’s looking positive - the pilot trial by EV charging station manufacturer Indra “has proven that V2H technology can help you save up to £200 a month on your energy bills”, as well as reducing our carbon footprint. 

According to the International Energy Agency, the Net Zero Emissions by 2050 goal would see 300?million electric cars on our roads by 2030, with EVs accounting for 60% of new car sales. That’s 300 million EV batteries available to use for V2H!

Generating and storing our own renewable energy, whether that’s from solar panels or a wind turbine, allows each of us to reduce the use of fossil fuels, lower our carbon footprint, save money on energy bills and reduce our reliance on the grid.