London, Europe Brief News – The excessive demand of Electric vehicles is bringing new challenges for charging firms, power grid operators and the government to fulfil the requirements to run millions of vehicles without disturbing the local network.
Smart charging seems to be the only solution to deal with increasing demand of Electric vehicles. It is extremely helpful for EV owners as they can plug in during expensive peak hours without extracting power before getting to cheap –off peak hours.
EY, one of the auditing firms, predicted that Europe will have 65 million EVs by 2030 and that figure will propelled to 130 million by the time we reach 2035.
Chris Pateman-Jones, CEO of British EV charger company connected kerb said “The shift to electric will be nigh on impossible without smart charging”.
Connect Kerb is a smartphone app that enables users to set the charging speed and time according to their wish. The kerb app also has some dynamic features for EV owners.
EY also mentioned in its reports that by the time we get to 2035, Europe will need at least 9 million public chargers to meet the demand.
Bidirectional charging can come more than handy in future as it will enable EV owners to sell their EV batteries and juice back to grid operators during peak hours.
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Pateman shared his goal of developing 190,000 street chargers by 2030. His idea was to predict the consumer charging design for grid operators and to facilitate consumers with lower rates.
He further added “Today when there’s too much wind on the grid, wind farms are told to turn the wind turbines off but with smart charging we can pull more of that power”.
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Drive Solar’s berg shared that the entire concept behind bi-directinal charging is to balance the grid somehow. Berg is also someone who evaluates that one fully charged EV can be sufficient enough to supply power to the home in the Netherlands for a week.
Serge Colle, EY’s global energy resource leader said “ Smart and bi-directional charging are better than massively expensive power grid upgrades”.
More automakers are embracing the concept of bidirectional charging. One of the renowned names Ford motors has allied with solar power company Sunrun to utilise its F-150 lightning pickup truck to power homes.
