Electric Vehicle Society | Bidirectional Charging, Preparing the Grid with Ivano Labricciosa Oshawa Power @ElectricVehicleSociety | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
We see increasing numbers of electric vehicles being delivered with a promising new capability referred to as bidirectional charging or perhaps more accurately "bidirectional power transfer". Simply put, the technology will give us the ability to use the energy stored in our car's battery for other purposes.
We hear from Ivano Labricciosa, President and CEO of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. Ivano describes some of the issues electric utilities in Canada will need to address in order to prepare for the arrival of bidirectional charging