Infrastructures - Japan: Toyota wants to integrate the electric cars to the national distribution network to ensure a stabilization of the system

According to reports from the Nova Agency, Toyota Tsusho Corp is developing a system for connecting electric cars, which would then function in all respects as batteries, to the national distribution network. In this way, the cars would “transform” into a dynamic energy storage system, which can be tapped in a controlled manner based on demand. This system would be useful to compensate both the demand and supply peaks and the unpredictability of the output of renewable sources and to reduce the need for new plants for the production of energy and thus contribute to a general stabilization of the system.

Toyota Tsusho, after an initial phase of experimentation that will begin in the coming months, aims to make the new integrated distribution network operational on a national scale as soon as possible, in fact, it has already invested a figure, not currently known, in the US startup Nuvve Corp., which deals precisely with the development of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies, whose developed system allows the energy accumulated by electric cars connected to the charging stations to be introduced into the grid according to demand, when the cars are unused and with the consent of the car owners to use their cars to support the network, and to the maximum amount of energy that can be drawn from the vehicle.

 

Infrastructures - Japan: Toyota wants to integrate the electric cars to the national distribution network to ensure a stabilization of the system

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