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Re:Tesla adds bidirectional charging capability by goodcanadian on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:04AM (#23245844)
The first step would be to charge the cars dependent on the power supply situation.

This is pretty much standard already. It is required that the charger be "smart" in order to qualify for the OLEV grant scheme in the UK. There are also vehicle to grid trials already happening:

https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/vehicle-to-grid-char...

https://www.indra.co.uk/v2g

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Re:Tesla adds bidirectional charging capability by _ph_ on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:16AM (#23245945)
It should be standard in all cars, but also all utility companies need to support it - in Germany, we definitely don't have any larger infrastructure rolled out to have the cars charging dependent on the grid load. What we have is special contracts for heat pumps, where the power company can e.g. switch off power for no more than 15 minutes per hour.
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Re:Tesla adds bidirectional charging capability by goodcanadian on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:54AM (#23246280)
Well, it has become standard on the chargers (more or less by law in the UK). Not all energy companies support it, yet, but there are those who do.

https://www.indra.co.uk/smart-charger

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