Implementation of Vehicle-to-Grid Services in Sweden

Purpose and goal

The aim of this project is to roll-out a residential and workplace Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) mobility service in the city of Göteborg. This project will pave the way for a vision of a full-scale implementation across Sweden.

Expected effects and result

By the end of the project the team will be able to assess the functionality, reliability, and effectiveness of the V2G service in a realistic residential and workplace environments with a real fleet of EVs and drivers. To accelerate the implementation process, the project confronts the nontechnical issues related to business model, infrastructure, policies, and regulations in parallel to the technical challenges. New form of collaboration between key national and local electricity producers, transmitters, and distributers will be established.

Planned approach and implementation

Polestar will support the project with a fleet of around 30 or more cars for testing and demonstration, as well as expertise in the field of battery, charging and data handling. Vattenfall and Göteborg Energi will collaborate to solve regulatory topics, business models and infrastructure needs. The Norwegian charging point operator (Easee) will provide bi-directional charging stations. Chalmers University of Technology will support the project with simulation of the grid capacity and a dedicated researcher. Polestar is the main applicant and coordinator of the project.