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The Technical Challenges to V2G

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Vehicle-to-Grid

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This chapter reviews the various technical challenges that vehicle-to-grid currently faces, with a richer focus on the three primary barriers: battery degradation, charger efficiency, and aggregation and communication. While none of these three barriers prevent a vehicle-to-grid system from being put into place, they are the basis for many of the other barriers in the sociotechnical framework, underscoring the importance of a nuanced knowledge of these from a technical perspective. While scaling and standardization of communication pose challenges, the implementation of algorithms may assuage all three of these barriers. The chapter lastly discusses the increasingly digitalization of society and the risks that vehicle-to-grid and other internet-of-thing technologies may pose.

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    Based on the author’s personal experience with the data collection process with Nuvve, a V2G aggregator company (discussed in Chapter 1).

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  1. Department of Business and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark

    Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester & Benjamin K. Sovacool

  2. Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex Unit, Falmer, UK

    Benjamin K. Sovacool

  3. Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Malaysia

    Benjamin K. Sovacool

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Noel, L., Zarazua de Rubens, G., Kester, J., Sovacool, B.K. (2019). The Technical Challenges to V2G. In: Vehicle-to-Grid. Energy, Climate and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04864-8_3

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