This article is the second in a new V2G News 2026 Policy Series examining the structural barriers that continue to slow the transition of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) from pilots to scalable market offerings.

3/17/2026

V2G News sat down with Russell Vare, Vice President of Vehicle Grid Integration, North America, at The Mobility House, to discuss the company’s role in scaling managed charging and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) solutions for fleets, the lessons learned from more than a decade of V2G pilots, and what it will take to move bidirectional charging from demonstration projects to durable market offerings in the U.S.

2/3/2026

Few topics generate as much concern around vehicle-to-grid (V2G) as battery health. For all the promise of bidirectional charging, grid flexibility, resilience, and new revenue streams, one question persists: What does this do to the battery?

2/17/2026

The long term promise of vehicle-to-grid has always rested on scale. And nowhere is the scale larger than in the residential sector.

4/14/2026

Bidirectional charging, whether it’s powering a home during an outage or feeding energy back to the grid, depends on a steady stream of trusted information to coordinate millions of mobile batteries safely and profitably. We need to know not only how much energy an EV can deliver, but also when, where, and under what conditions.

1/6/2026

No state has done more to promote electric vehicles than California. EVs now represent more than a quarter of new light-duty vehicle sales, and the state has aligned climate policy, transportation electrification, and grid modernization around a 2045 carbon-neutrality target. For more than a decade, regulators and utilities have acknowledged a simple truth: electric vehicles are not just new load, they are potential grid assets.

And yet, bidirectional charging in California remains largely confined to pilot programs.

3/3/2026

As bidirectional charging moves from pilot projects toward early commercialization, the conversation around vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is increasingly shaped by industry-authored white papers. These documents play an important role: they help organize technical concepts, clarify emerging standards, and articulate how V2G could integrate into energy markets at scale. At the same time, they inevitably reflect the perspectives and commercial interests of their authors.

A recent white paper, Fundamentals and Applications of Bi-Directional Charging, authored by Sigenergy and The Mobility House, offers a useful case study in how the industry currently understands V2G, its promise, its architecture, and its remaining barriers.

1/20/2026

As bidirectional charging moves from demonstrations toward early commercialization, the industry continues to grapple with a fundamental question: under real-world conditions, does vehicle-to-grid participation deliver enough value to justify the added complexity, cost, and perceived risk? A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at the University of California, Davis offers one of the most grounded answers to date by examining V2G not in theory, but as it would operate in the lives of actual drivers, under today’s electricity tariffs, and with battery degradation fully accounted for.

1/6/2026

Much of the vehicle-to-grid literature focuses on engineering feasibility and market economics. Researchers have spent years estimating the value EV batteries can provide to the grid, modeling optimal charging and discharging strategies, and examining how dynamic pricing could unlock arbitrage opportunities.

But there is another question that ultimately determines whether V2G will scale: Will drivers actually participate?

3/17/2026

A November 2025 paper in Applied Energy by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center and collaborating institutions tackles a question V2G stakeholders often talk around but rarely quantify with real operating data: how much value can bidirectional charging actually produce, and which real-world constraints determine whether that value is realized?

2/17/2026