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Where Do EVs Fit in the Urban Energy Outlook?

Renewable Energy World: As the world’s biggest cities work to understand how their infrastructure can help them build clean and sustainable economies, a group of companies is helping in the effort with a study of what they’re calling vehicle-to-everything (V2X) charging.

Hitachi Europe Ltd., Mitsubishi Motors and French utility ENGIE launched a demonstration project for Hitachi’s V2X charger for an office building in North Holland, Netherlands. A next-gen approach to vehicle-to-grid charging, V2X can recharge an electric vehicle (EV) and discharge the energy back into a building or the grid, providing different flexibilities, such as kW, ΔkW, kWh and VAR. The companies said it is also possible to connect solar panels and external storage directly to the recharger.

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