Are there any Forum members who used to be part of the V2G trial?

Hi ​@Sam72 

It's been a while since I last heard about V2G trials. The last one involved the Wallbox Quasar and Nissan Leaf cars. The Leaf was chosen because the Chademo standard supports bidirectional power transfer.

However the trial ended and the Quasar unit became just a humble EV charger. Quite a lot of them died and a small group of people on SpeakEV tried to resurect them but reading between the lines I think there is a fundamental design issue with them which means they will all die eventually.

I've heard that Nissan are coming up with a new V2G box priced at around £3700. Wallbox have the Quasar 2 at around six grand (not too bad if you say it quickly).

I'm not sure what energy companies are going to be interested in V2G. I think the uptake (for the price of the unit) is not going to make any appreciable difference to the grid at peak times. And that's about all I have. A sort of - It would be nice to do but is it really going to make that much difference - after all the hype in the press that it would solve the problems of the grid being heavily loaded during the peak.

Have you heard anything?

Peter

Hi Peter, I have a V2G that I got as part of an original trial by OVO and it is still going strong. OVO used to pay an export credit, but are now trialling a new compensation method and I was wondering whether any of the OG group were stll here and moving to the new trial, and in particular what their thoughts were on it. Cheers Samir

Hi Samir

I hope you get replies from anyone else on here who were part of the trial. I don't know how else you would contact them other than create an account on SpeakEV.com and ask the same question there, perhaps with the same title. The likelihood is that some of those with the same V2G migrated to other energy suppliers over time so they won't see your question on here. There was a Quasar for sale on there not so long ago for £2500 but I don't know if it got sold or not. I think the price is a barrier to it being widely adopted.

Best of luck contacting other people. 

Peter

Hey ​@Sam72,

That's a fantastic question! I’ve reached out internally to find out if there’s anything we can share, since I don’t think we have any details about a new trial on the Forum just yet. It’s possible they’re just exploring options with a small group of users. I'll keep you posted as soon as I hear more!