{"id":354235,"date":"2026-05-21T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/europe-must-close-ranks-on-bidirectional-charging-as-germany-dawdles\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:07:18","slug":"europe-must-close-ranks-on-bidirectional-charging-as-germany-dawdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/europe-must-close-ranks-on-bidirectional-charging-as-germany-dawdles\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEurope must close ranks on bidirectional charging\u201d as Germany dawdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/europe-must-close-ranks-on-bidirectional-charging-as-germany-dawdles.jpg' alt='electrive'><br \/>Germany is struggling with getting bidirectional charging capabilities to drivers so they can support the grid. The German Ministry of Economic Affairs recently hosted the third &#8216;European Summit for Bidirectional Charging&#8217; where European industry partners presented the progress of cross-country and cross-sector collaboration since the inaugural pan-European summits in 2023 and 2024. Progress from world&#8217;s largest legacy carmaker is in sight, but hurdles remain before vehicle owners can help stabilize the grid en masse.  <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/05\/21\/europe-must-close-ranks-on-bidirectional-charging-as-germany-gets-caught-in-red-tape\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany is struggling with getting bidirectional charging capabilities to drivers so they can support the grid. The German Ministry of Economic Affairs recently hosted the third &#8216;European Summit for Bidirectional Charging&#8217; where European industry partners presented the progress of cross-country and cross-sector collaboration since the inaugural pan-European summits in 2023 and&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/europe-must-close-ranks-on-bidirectional-charging-as-germany-dawdles\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":354236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354235","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\/354235","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=354235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}