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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jasper Jolly

UK looking to give carmakers incentives to turn EVs into ‘power plants on wheels’

A yellow electric car charges on a driveway as a man and child walk towards a house
V2G technology allows drivers to charge automatically when electricity is cheap overnight, and then sell some of it back to the grid at times of high demand. Photograph: SouthWorks/Alamy

Electric cars that can be used as “power plants on wheels” could be given government backing as part of plans under consideration to help UK manufacturers.

Ministers are considering giving manufacturers incentives to add “vehicle to grid” (V2G) technology to cars as part of its review of the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate.

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