Volvo Cars launches new Energy Solutions business, embracing wider climate potential of electric cars. Our electric cars are an important step towards a more sustainable society, but the cars and their batteries can do so much more than eliminate tailpipe emissions. For example, did you know that stationary electric cars have the potential to power your house, your appliances or even return power to the energy grid?
To capitalise on that potential and help support the transition to a smarter, more sustainable and more efficient energy grid, we're now launching Volvo Cars Energy Solutions. It's a completely new business unit that will offer energy storage and charging-related technologies and services which form the connective tissue between our cars, our customers lives, the efficient use of energy and society at large.
For example, bi-directional charging is a technology that allows an electric car to give back extra battery power to a compatible grid, helping to balance the grid during peak hours and reduce the need for fossil-generated electricity. Our new flagship, the fully electric EX90 SUV, will be the first Volvo car equipped with all the necessary hardware and (over time) software to enable bi-directional charging and direct energy storage from solar.
Together with Gothenburg Energi Nat AB, the local grid company in our Swedish hometown of Gothenburg, we're now launching one of the first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) pilot programmes that aims to test such V2G technologies on the local energy grid and in a home environment with real customers. The pilot deliberately uses a low-cost AC wallbox, because it will help to accelerate widespead adoption of the technology.
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