Fermata says car owners with vehicles capable of bidirectional charging can get agreements with utilities to send electricity from their cars to the grid when needed-and get paid for doing so. Fermata has partnered with medium-duty vehicle maker Phoenix Motor Inc., and has gotten approval from Nissan, to use those two companies’ vehicles for V2X (vehicle-to-everything) applications.
Here’s hoping my local waste management provider will consider one.įor those who complain that all these electric cars are going to crash the grid, consider this: Maybe all these electric cars can be used to prevent the grid from crashing in the first place! Fermata Energy uses bi-directional charging to pump electricity from your electric car back to either your house, your factory, or the electric grid itself, thus preventing brown-outs and even blackouts. There’s a calculator on the Peterbilt website that will help determine the time it takes to pay off, given whatever duty cycle you plan to use. Another Peterbilt partner will help you sort out getting chargers and infrastructure. They’ll even help you apply for government grants that are available to EV buyers. Peterbilt will lease you one for two to four weeks so you can see if you like it. Even the right-mounted bin lifter is electrically powered, and on top of that it recaptures some of that energy through regen as it sets the can back on the ground.
The tandem Meritor 14Xe motors in back are equipped with regenerative braking for all that stop-and-go driving a refuse hauler faces daily. With a mighty 400-kWh LFP battery powering all its systems, the 520EV can lift, empty, and replace 1100 garbage cans in a single charge. Don’t call it a garbage truck! The Peterbilt Model 520EV is the Cadillac of electric garbage trucks, er, refuse trucks.
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