The Mobility House and Ambibox offer an open test lab for bidirectional charging of e-cars.
The two charging infrastructure providers The Mobility House (Munich) and Ambibox (Mainz) offer third parties a laboratory for testing charging infrastructure. The two companies are "setting up a unique test lab for bidirectional charging worldwide," according to a statement. It said the lab will allow automakers to test electric vehicles under real-world conditions and explore bidirectional integration into the energy market.
This should accelerate the ramp-up of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology and enable a uniform interpretation of standards, it adds. Ambibox is providing six of its V2G-capable DC chargers for this purpose at its corporate site in Mainz, Germany. "A further site at The Mobility House in Munich is to follow later.
The tests will simulate the marketing of car power in different energy markets, so that "the electric cars can be integrated into the energy market and their flexibilities can be marketed profitably." In this context, the cars serve as mobile electricity storage units and are thus buffers for the power grid.
Automotive manufacturers are thus given the opportunity for the first time "to test the entire ecosystem on the basis of established standards and open interfaces via real applications permanently and beyond the scope of test festivals / plugfests - from the charging station to the backend to marketing on the European power exchange (Epex Spot)," the companies write.
The partnership with V2G charging station manufacturer Ambibox could offer automakers a "hands-on test environment," said Marcus Fendt, managing director of The Mobility House. "This will allow the technology to be tried out from the vehicle to the energy market and accelerate standardization."
Since 2015, The Mobility House says it has already been able to prove in more than eight international V2G pilot projects that the technology works, that it does not harm the battery and that it "promotes an efficient, renewable as well as lower CO2 energy system."
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