Electric vehicles can help keep the air clean in our cities – as we’ve seen recently with the reduction of traffic through COVID-19 lockdowns – but they face two obstacles.
In the short term they’re still expensive. In the long term charging millions of vehicles from the electricity grid presents challenges.
This new project, launched today, tries to tackle both of these obstacles head-on, and it could mean owners earn more money than they’re likely to pay for charging their electric vehicles.
See Owners of electric vehicles to be paid to plug into the grid to help avoid blackouts
Electric vehicles are still relatively expensive but a trial to help them power the national grid in times of need could see owners being paid. That could make them a lot more attractive.