Volkswagen is turning the ID.Buzz into an electricity storage device
Deliveries of the new ID.Buzz from Volkswagen will begin in autumn. The minibus becomes “bidirectional” and can thus return the charged electricity to the grid – and thus becomes a storage device.
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In the future, electric cars can help to solve a major supply problem with renewable energy: Wind and solar power are often produced when the electricity is not needed at all. So far, there has been a lack of sufficient storage capacity to store the excess amounts of electricity. E-cars are to take over this function. Volkswagen and an Eon subsidiary have started a first attempt in Saxony.
“We need the car as part of the energy transition,” says Elke Temme, head of the charging and energy division at Volkswagen, describing the common challenge for vehicle manufacturers and the electricity industry. Every year in Germany, more than 6000 gigawatt hours of electricity from solar and wind power plants worth around one billion euros are not used because there is not enough storage. 2.7 million electric cars could be on the road with this amount of electricity for a whole year, explains Elke Temme in an interview with the Handelsblatt.
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