BMW, Ford and Honda jointly created an intelligent charging company

This Tuesday (September 12), BMW Group, Ford Motor Company and Honda Motor Company reached an agreement to establish a new company called ChargeScape.

Through ChargeScape, BMW, Ford and Honda will use their cross industry research around the Open Vehicle Grid Integration Platform (OVGIP) for many years to create a single platform to connect power companies, automobile manufacturers and their interested electric vehicle customers, and manage the power use of a large number of electric vehicles. The new company is expected to be put into operation at the beginning of next year, and plans to add value to electric vehicle customers and power utilities in the United States and Canada.

Thomas Ruemenapp, vice president of engineering of BMW North America Co., Ltd., said that ChargeScape aims to accelerate the expansion of intelligent charging and vehicle to all solutions nationwide, while increasing customer interests, supporting the stability of the power grid and helping to maximize the use of renewable energy.

ChargeScape will provide power companies and system operators with safe energy data, such as total demand response, charging and EV battery utilization rate consistent with off peak, low-cost time and availability of high renewable energy, so as to achieve smart energy use of plug-in EV batteries.

Electric vehicle customers using ChargeScape can charge at grid friendly time through flexible and managed schedules, thus obtaining economic benefits. In addition, customers will eventually have the opportunity to share the energy stored in their electric vehicle batteries with the grid during peak demand through the vehicle to grid (V2G) application, which will have a significant impact.

Jay Joseph, vice president of sustainable development business development of Honda Motor Corporation, said: "As the automobile manufacturers accelerate towards the future of electrification, we must find solutions like ChargeScape, so that all stakeholders can work together for the interests of our customers, society and industry by using more renewable energy in the mobile field."

General Motors said that by 2026, all Ultium electric vehicles will adopt the vehicle to home two-way charging technology - vehicle to home (V2H) two-way charging technology has brought additional value to electric vehicle users, who will be able to transfer the energy on the vehicle to household energy storage needs when needed.

(Original text from: energy technology global energy storage network, new energy network integration)