Nissan is coming aboard vehicle-to-grid (V2G) EV integration company ChargeScape as an equal investor, alongside founding automakers BMW, Ford, and Honda.
Nissan buys into Ford, BMW, and Honda’s home EV charging business
Nissan will be an equal investor in the EV home charging and vehicle-to-grid integration company ChargeScape.
Nissan will be an equal investor in the EV home charging and vehicle-to-grid integration company ChargeScape.
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Once the investment transaction is complete, Nissan said it plans to roll out ChargeScape’s services to its electric vehicle customers in the US and Canada.
Formed last year (with operations starting in September), ChargeScape built a software platform that wirelessly “talks” to EVs and utility companies, managing home charging and sending energy back to the grid during periods of high energy demand.
EV owners who take advantage of ChargeScape’s services can theoretically save money by letting the system pause charging and sell stored EV battery energy back to their local utility companies.
Nissan is no stranger to bidirectional charging technologies. As far back as 2012, the automaker included the capability in its pioneering Leaf EV chargers, which were designed to power homes during outages. Efforts to make use of Nissan’s dying CHAdeMO charging port standard have been revitalized in recent years by V2G integrator Fermata Energy.
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