Electric car: Nissan Leaf can power your home

The Japanese manufacturer has approved the use of the FE-15 bidirectional charger from Fermata Energy in the United States. In addition to charging the Nissan Leaf, the FE-15 will allow the Japanese manufacturer’s electric car to feed energy back into the US power grid. In these times when we are being pushed towards energy sobriety, turning our cars into energy generators it actually looks attractive.

A fully electric car with bidirectional charging offers many advantages: above all from an ecological point of view. Whatever people say, an electric car is more environmentally friendly than a petrol car. Economically, then, Nissan has perhaps found a way to revive interest in Uncle Sam’s country. American companies and drivers don’t appreciate the Nissan Leaf, but if it can make them money… think twice before buying a new electric car.

According to Nissan, a two-way charger is good for nature and the wallet

David Slutzky, CEO of Fermata Energy, explains that as we are increasingly encouraged to conserve energy, “in addition to lowering the total cost of ownership of a car, a two-way charger makes it possible to reduce the electrical load on the network”. Wikipedia recalls: “at any given time, 95% of cars are parkedThe batteries of electric vehicles can be used to transfer electricity from the car to the electricity distribution grid and vice versa to contribute to the regulation of electricity supply and demand”.

Companies with a large vehicle fleet will likely be the first to be interested in this V2X (vehicle-to-everything or vehicle-to-network) technology. This will allow their vehicles’ batteries to power their buildings or feed electricity back into the grid. Nissan is currently working with a company called dcbel. V2X to individuals in the near future. Knowing that electricity and charging prices will explode in 2023, we suspect that Nissan’s initiative will likely be spoofed.

Source : nissan