elektroauto-news.net, 23.08.2022
The electric vehicle manufacturer TWIKE has announced that the new TWIKE 5 will be capable of bidirectional charging. To this end, TWIKE has entered into a partnership with Ambibox. Their technology not only enables AC charging with 22 kW and a DC fast-charging function via CCS. It also has a direct AC output in the form of a CEE socket integrated in the vehicle with 11 kW and a Schuko socket with 3.5 kW to feed energy from the vehicle’s traction battery back into the owner’s home or for other consumers.
Ambibox and TWIKE are now turning the buzzwords Vehicle to Grid (V2G) or Vehicle to Home (V2H) into reality, starting with the exclusive series of the TWIKE 5. Ambibox GmbH acted as development partner and integrated its bidirectional DC charger into the vehicle architecture of the TWIKE 5. Ambibox’s SiC-based power electronics platform can thus be used as a highly efficient on-board charger.
“TWIKE pilots thus become entrepreneurs in the field of renewable energies and sustainability. They use their TWIKE like a boy scout uses his Swiss Army knife,” the company said in a recent press release. It was foreseeable that the new TWIKE 5 would have to offer additional customer benefits in that it could also be an energy storage system for the customer’s own household and therefore also the public grid.
In addition to TWIKE, other manufacturers are also working on V2G solutions. Volkswagen’s MEB modular electric drive system, on which all vehicles in the all-electric ID family are based, is also capable of bidirectional charging. Volkswagen is already testing test vehicles; in the course of 2022, every new electric car from the Group that is based on the MEB modular electric drive system should be able to charge and return electricity.
