Egat partners Mitsubishi Motors for converting electric vehicle battery energy to electrical system

By The Nation

 

 

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Mitsubishi Motors to develop a business model for converting electric vehicle battery energy to home electrical system, aiming to expand electric charging stations across the country.

 

Egat and Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) signed an MoU on energy conversion between electric vehicles (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle ( PHEV) with electrical systems and power control from the National Power System Control Centre.

 

Jiraporn Sirikham, Egat's deputy governor for strategy, and Morikazu Chokki, president of Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) Co Ltd, sign an MoU witnessed by executives from both agencies.

 

Jiraporn Sirikham, Egat's deputy governor for strategy, said that this cooperation was another important step for Egat, which was ready to continue promoting new energy innovations for sustainable development in both economic, social and environmental aspects. He said Egat was committed to supporting the use of various types of electric vehicles, such as electric cars, in Thailand.

 

The cooperation will be for three years.

 

For the conversion of energy between electric vehicles and electrical systems, it will be a study and test of power supply from Mitsubishi PHEV batteries to electrical systems such as houses or office buildings, using an inverter as a connection device between the electric vehicle and the electrical system.

 

In the future, if there are more electric cars, such energy conversion could potentially support a virtual power plant innovation to help stabilise and strengthen the domestic power grid, the official said.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/business/30395695

 

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37 minutes ago, webfact said:

In the future, if there are more electric cars, such energy conversion could potentially support a virtual power plant innovation to help stabilise and strengthen the domestic power grid

will it be going off weekly  too  like it  currently does out in the  boonies

1 hour ago, bodga said:

will it be going off weekly  too  like it  currently does out in the  boonies

Your power only goes off once a week! ????

A car battery can only be charged/discharged so many times...it's a fixed number..so if we discharge the battery every day to support the home power system the car batteries won't last long before they have to be replaced.

 

This is a very bad plan and only creates new world problems.

 

What's wrong with hydrogen power? We can buy hydrogen powered motobikes since 10 years from Suzuki but i've never seen one.

because solar panels would be toooooo obvious in a country with 12 hours a sun a day, right ?

The main problem in Thailand is that they are all jumping one very important  step before the reality of what produces the energy in the first place as coal & gas are the main producers at present.

Just moving the pollution from one place to another & do not forget about transport friction loss along the way

The other problem which will rear it's ugly head in 5 years are  the mountains of used dry cell batteries

India is the only country that I have read about working on this but they admit themselves that have a long way to go.

In conclusion take a look at the raw materials used in creating the batteries,,,,,,it is not pretty

Yes the dream of electric cars is heavy on the minds of people, but try to remember that the batteries

in these cars are not recyclable, some people think that a battery is a simple constructed object

and they are wrong. The amount of plastics, and other oil products in these electric vehicles,

is actually as much or more than the existing cars, vans or trucks. No exhaust emissions

and reusable energy is the only gains. Oh yay.   I still need a vehicle that can go 1600 kms.

or 1000 miles per day to do me and my business any good, so electric just does not

work for me.

Geezer