Toshiba’s Charge Grid puts your solar panels to work, smartly charges your EV

Got a bunch of photovoltaic cells and a vehicle that requires electricity? Toshiba’s thought up a process dubbed “Charge Grid” by which you can juice the latter efficiently. When the sun’s out and the electrons are flowing, it doesn’t pay to put them into the grid, so this system stores them in a rechargeable battery ready to rapidly charge your EV. For nighttime when the electricity rates are low, a bidirectional inverter lets you hop right back on the neighborhood grid, so your solar cells are put to good use and your car is always well fed. The company tells Tech-On commercialization of the system is still a few years away, so you’ve plenty of time to raze that roof antenna in favor of some photosynthesized electricity.

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