Using electric vehicles for energy services: Industry perspectives

The importance of grid integration for achievable greenhouse gas emissions reductions from alternative vehicle technologies

“…Weiller [49] examined and provided a conceptual framework for the services that PEVs can provide, identifying that grid-responsive smart charging or V2G will be used for residential load management in the near term with larger-scale grid services only being feasible in the long term when vehicle adoption rates are significant. The current study concludes that smart charging and/or energy storage is necessary to gain the maximum benefit from PEV integration from the perspective of greenhouse gases, but takes place for a year 2050 timeframe and a 90% vehicle adoption rate.…”

100% sustainable energy

“…Paper [85] concluded that a completely new perspective to substantiate future research on applications of EVs for energy services based on evidence from corporations and industry players. Emerging energy service business models are identified for the near, medium and long term future.…”

The Role of Plug-In Electric Vehicles with Renewable Resources in Electricity Systems

“…The difference between the two cases would be the ownership of the battery. In a case in which consumers lease the battery from the OEM, which retains it as an asset, new partnerships between OEMs and SOs or generators may arise, allowing the OEM to recuperate the value provided to the power system or renewable generator through the PEV (Weiller et al, 2014).…”

“…Regulation has to address the limits and control rights for the different actors. Cars are usually manufactured as 'closed systems' where the software and communications network are contained exclusively within the vehicle and are proprietary to each OEM (Weiller and Neely, 2014) -this is likely to cause issues with the implementation of the business models discussed in Section 4.2. Also, as noted in Section 3.4, as long as the PEV market remains in the early-adopter stage, there is no justification for companies to design a new platform specifically for PEVs (Weiller and Neely, 2014).…”