{"id":173332,"date":"2023-10-02T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T23:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/world-first-dutch-program-will-use-ride-share-cars-as-a-grid-battery"},"modified":"2023-10-02T18:41:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T23:41:11","slug":"world-first-dutch-program-will-use-ride-share-cars-as-a-grid-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/world-first-dutch-program-will-use-ride-share-cars-as-a-grid-battery","title":{"rendered":"World-first Dutch program will use ride-share cars as a grid battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/world-first-dutch-program-will-use-ride-share-cars-as-a-grid-battery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Renewable energy grids need lots of energy storage \u2013 and EVs plugged into charging stations represent a huge, city-wide battery just waiting to help out. The Dutch city of Utrecht is about to pioneer a clever way to kickstart two-way charging.<\/p>\n<p>The idea has been done plenty at the domestic level \u2013 where devices like <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/toyota-prius-plug-in-emergency-generator\/22834\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Toyota\u2019s V2H (vehicle-to-home) charging system<\/a> can turn an electric car into a high-powered backup power supply capable of running your whole home for days at a time.<\/p>\n<p>And people have been talking about it on a broader, city-wide scale since the dawn of the EV revolution; the same high power density batteries that makes EVs so quick to accelerate make them perfect for quickly sending power back into the grid to smooth out demand spikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable energy grids need lots of energy storage \u2013 and EVs plugged into charging stations represent a huge, city-wide battery just waiting to help out. The Dutch city of Utrecht is about to pioneer a clever way to kickstart two-way charging. The idea has been done plenty at the domestic level \u2013 where devices like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}