Your Volkswagen Can Make Your Dishwasher Work

With the “Vehicle to Home” feature, many models in the Volkswagen ID. family now offer bidirectional charging.

To sum up this technology, bidirectional charging transforms electric cars into mobile energy storage units. Logical when you are equipped with batteries, you might say, but you still need to be able to use this stored energy for more than just moving the vehicle!

The new ID. models equipped with a 77 kWh battery can now use the bidirectional charging feature to store electricity at home. Volkswagen states that they can also activate this function for vehicles already delivered as soon as they receive the ID. Software 3.5 via an Over-the-Air update. Increasingly, homes are fitted with photovoltaic panels that, of course, power the household systems but also enable charging electric cars. The large storage capacity of these batteries allows, in turn, to power a photovoltaic-powered house during several cloudy days in a row or at night when the solar panel installation no longer provides electricity. This means customers can choose when to draw energy from the public grid or use self-produced electricity stored in the vehicle’s battery.

Operating your dishwasher or TV with the energy stored in your car, which is itself powered by the solar panels on your roof, is quite a revolutionary idea, admit it.

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