General Motors Co. in Detroit will expand vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional charging technology across its retail portfolio of Ultium-based electric vehicles by model year 2026.
The first vehicles to receive the technology include the previously announced 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV RST, followed by the 2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali Edition 1, 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV, 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV, 2024 Cadillac LYRIQ, and the upcoming Cadillac Escalade IQ, which will be revealed on Aug. 9.
Building on the company’s plan to deliver a growing suite of energy management products and services through GM Energy, V2H should give additional value for EV drivers, who will be able to transfer energy from their vehicles to a properly equipped home when desired.
The technology allows consumers to store and transfer energy to help offset electricity needs during peak demand days and mitigate the impact of power outages. This is meant to make the transition to an all-electric future more compelling for consumers.
“GM Energy’s growing ecosystem of energy management solutions will help accelerate GM’s vision of an all-electric future by further expanding access to even more benefits that EVs can offer,” says Wade Sheffer, vice president of GM Energy. “By integrating V2H across our entire Ultium-based portfolio, we are making this groundbreaking technology available to more consumers, with benefits that extend well beyond the vehicle itself, and at broader scale than ever before.”
Customers will be able to use V2H technology on compatible GM EVs through GM Energy’s available Ultium home offerings, and the GM Energy Cloud, a software platform which will allow users to manage the transfer of energy between applicable and connected GM Energy assets and the home.
Information on additional availability of V2H technology and specific timing of V2H rollout to individual vehicle models will be provided in future updates.
Information about GM Energy and its ecosystem of available product and service offerings through Ultium Home, Ultium Commercial and Ultium Charge 360 can be found here.
In other GM EV news, the company’s BrightDrop subsidiary is making Mexico the next country to receive its electric vans. With products in the United States, Canada, and soon to be Mexico, GM’s e-delivery tech business is offering services that should help commercial fleet customers with their electrification needs across the continent.
The first two products coming to Mexico are BrightDrop’s flagship electric vans: the BrightDrop Zevo 400 and BrightDrop Zevo 600.
The company was launched in the U.S. in 2021 and was created to provide smarter, safer, and more sustainable solutions that help decarbonize the movement of goods and services. Following a successful launch delivering real results to some of the world’s biggest brands, BrightDrop expanded its business to Canada in late 2022 where it continues to gain demand.
BrightDrop EVs are built at GM’s CAMI Assembly plant in Ontario, Canada, the nation’s first large-scale EV factory. After completing the fastest plant conversion in GM’s history, production of the Zevo 600 is ramping up with the Zevo 400 on track to begin in the next few months.
BrightDrop Zevos will be available for customers to order in Mexico starting later this year. Visit gobrightdrop.com for more information.
“Bringing BrightDrop’s products to Mexico is a key move in our mission to decarbonize delivery globally, while helping customers take advantage of the economic benefits of going electric,” says Steve Hornyak, chief commercial officer at BrightDrop. “Electrifying vehicle fleets can positively impact the environment and companies’ bottom lines. By bringing BrightDrop solutions closer to our customers throughout North America, we can help make the EV transition as seamless as possible.”
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