Energy transition: How China’s EVs • Table.Briefings

Battery swap station from NIO: The car manufacturer uses the batteries to reduce the load on the power grid and save electricity costs.

Bi-directional charging allows EV batteries to feed their electricity into the grid. The Chinese government sees this enormous storage potential as a building block for the country’s energy transition. But there are obstacles.

Electric vehicles as energy storage: This is the charming vision being worked on by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The idea is for EVs to supply electricity to the grid at peak times and, ideally, recharge their own batteries when the grid is oversupplied.

Energy transition: How China’s EVs could serve as power storage

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