Carmaker Nissan and power company Enel have announced plans for the first electric vehicle-to-grid (V2G) trial in the UK. One hundred V2G units will be installed at locations agreed by private and fleet owners of the Nissan Leaf car and e-NV200 electric van, who will be able to sell stored energy from their vehicle battery back to the National Grid. It comes as Nissan announced plans to offer EV batteries in a home storage unit (see below).

Nissan said it already had 18,000 electric vehicles in the UK that could together export 180MW.