Could your EV power your home? A look at how electric vehicles could be used as two-way charging systems, easing strain on the grid.
Interchange Recharged
Wood Mackenzie
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
EV growth is moving, but is it moving quickly enough? Wood Mackenzie research projects battery electric vehicles to account for 58% of light vehicle sales globally by 2050. It won’t be until 2045 that EVs surpass ICE vehicles on the roads globally. So how can consumers be incentivized to get an EV? Manufacturers are addressing concerns around range anxiety and price, so what else is there to tempt buyers? Perhaps shifting the conversation from EVs as just low-carbon emitting cars to seeing them as energy assets might do the trick. Could vehicles reliably charge your house? Or even stabilize the grid during peak demand?
To find out, host Sylvia Leyva Martinez speaks with GM Energy’s Aseem Kapur about their two-way charging EV project. They explore the potential of vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-grid systems, the lessons from early pilots, the importance of interoperability standards, and how incentives and customer trust will drive EV adoption – something that needs to accelerate if we’re to stay on track for climate goals.
The key questions to answer on the viability of using EVs as DERs:
- Why should EV owners risk their battery health and daily mobility needs to support the grid?
- With thousands of utilities across the US, can one interoperable system realistically work at scale?
- Will incentives be strong enough to convince consumers and utilities that EVs are more than just cars?
Sylvia gets the answers.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is for anyone who's thinking of buying an eB. |
| 0:06.9 | If you're still on the fence, don't worry, there's still a lot here for you. |
| 0:10.5 | But imagine having your electric vehicle not just storing energy for its own use, but for your house as well. |
| 0:17.6 | EVs as distributed energy resources. |
| 0:19.9 | Could it work? |
| 0:25.5 | I'm Civia Levin-Martinez and I'm a principal analyst at the energy research firm with McKenzie, |
| 0:30.8 | and I'm on a mission to get the data and insights behind the tech, finance, and policy that's shaping clean energy. Every two weeks, I talk to |
| 0:39.4 | innovators and industry leaders about how they are working to solve a specific problem in the |
| 0:44.5 | energy transition. You can now keep up with the show on YouTube. Just search interchange recharge |
| 0:49.5 | and subscribe to the show there. So if you're watching us for the first time or listening wherever you |
| 0:54.6 | get podcasts, bienvenitos. Welcome. It's great to have you here. Wood McKenzie's Solar Energy |
| 1:00.8 | and Storage Summit is back in Denver on the 29th and 30th of April, 26. It's co-located with |
| 1:07.8 | the brand new North American Power and Renewables Forum, which features |
| 1:11.8 | senior speakers from across the US power sector. |
| 1:15.2 | Come and join over 450 senior leaders from US power developers, utilities, and independent |
| 1:21.7 | power producers to tackle the industry's biggest challenges. |
| 1:26.0 | From navigating life after tax credits to capturing the load |
| 1:29.2 | growth boom, discover how the energy mix is evolving and how the U.S. is going to meet that power |
| 1:34.4 | demand. Seats are limited, so register now at woodmack.com. So today, we'll be looking at how |
| 1:42.1 | EVs can be used as two-way charging and energy storage systems. |
| 1:46.3 | A lot of my work is on solar and storage, so this is a super interesting one, if it's a viable |
| 1:51.7 | option. |
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