Hello Everybody!
We are Linda, Paolo and Anna and we are working on a project called V2X, which stands for vehicle to grid, for the next six month.
Linda is a digital media student at the University of Amsterdam, doing her bachelor thesis on this project, Paolo is a industrial design student from Turin, Italy, with a specialication in ecodesign and Anna is a uxer experience design student at TU Delft, doing her master thesis in the MediaLAB.
V2X stands for Vehicle-to-Grid which basicly means to include the batteries of electric vehicles ( EVs) in the electric grid.
It is estimated that the number of electric vehicles (EVs) will increase up to 200.000 EVs in 2020 and one million in 2025 this will have a great impact on the Dutch electricity grid. A main reason for this are peak loading times during which a huge amount of energy is demanded by householders. The batteries of EV can be used as temporary energy storage and therefore help to stability the grid!
The project Vehicle to Grid (V2X) is a pilot project in Lochem and Amsterdam Nieuw-West, which aims to facilitate using EV batteries as an energy storage, sharing of batteries within communities, and to enable EV drivers to control their own energy consumption.
The pilot is a cooperation project of Cofely, Alliander, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, Amsterdam Smart City, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) and the borough of Amsterdam Nieuw-West.
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