{"id":324815,"date":"2025-06-11T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/utrecht-energized-launched-how-bidirectional-charging-is-set-to-make-the-breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:19:52","slug":"utrecht-energized-launched-how-bidirectional-charging-is-set-to-make-the-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/utrecht-energized-launched-how-bidirectional-charging-is-set-to-make-the-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Utrecht Energized\u2019 launched: How bidirectional charging is set to make the breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/media\/2025\/06\/niederlande-utrecht-energized-renault-5-mywheels-bidirektionales-laden-2025-01-1400x933.jpg.webp\" \/><br \/>\nBidirectional charging is often hailed as the holy grail of e-mobility. The batteries of electric cars are not only used for driving but can also power homes \u2013 or even help stabilise the electricity grid. Due to numerous hurdles, it has remained largely in the realm of pilot projects. But Utrecht has now launched the real-world operation of a significantly larger initiative \u2013 starting with 50 bidirectionally charging EVs, with a target of 500. What are the Dutch doing that others aren\u2019t? We went to see for ourselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2025\/06\/11\/utrecht-energized-launched-how-bidirectional-charging-is-set-to-make-the-breakthrough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/utrecht-energized-launched-how-bidirectional-charging-is-set-to-make-the-breakthrough.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Logo&#8221;&gt;Bidirectional charging is often hailed as the holy grail of e-mobility. The batteries of electric cars are not only used for driving but can also power homes \u2013 or even help stabilise the electricity grid. Due to numerous hurdles, it has remained largely in the realm of pilot projects. But&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/utrecht-energized-launched-how-bidirectional-charging-is-set-to-make-the-breakthrough\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":324816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324842,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324815\/revisions\/324842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}