China Wants Its Massive EV Fleet to Plug In and Charge the Power Grid

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China’s top economic planning agency will select 50 projects in places like Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong and Sichuan to carry out vehicle-to-grid demonstrations by 2025. Photo: Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) — In the industrial hub of Wuxi near Shanghai, car owners recently took part in China’s largest experiment to rewire the grid and take advantage of its world-leading fleet of electric vehicles (EVs).

Instead of charging up after plugging in, 50 EVs did it the other way around. For 30 minutes, the cars combined to feed around 2 megawatts of electricity into the grid, enough to fully power 133 houses for a day, according to a report from state-owned CCTV.