V2X Cost Reduction in Electric Trucks
Project Update
The project was kicked off in October 2025. To date, the team has been working with sub-recipients on developing project plans, with a focus on designing the mobile bidirectional charging station architecture to support both laboratory and field demonstration efforts. The team also started preparing data sharing agreements with project partners and initial evaluation of future permitting and interconnection needs for field demonstration.
The Issue
Despite the many advantages of using electric trucks for V2X services (such as their large battery capacity, predictable routes and schedules, and their role as business assets aligning with incentives to generate passive income from various V2X applications), V2X services using electric trucks have been underexplored due to at least two key challenges: (1) a lack of understanding of their impact on battery degradation, leading to concerns about the potential effects of V2X participation on total cost of ownership; and (2) cost concerns due to the uncertainty in the revenue of V2X participation across different services and ability to offset the additional capital costs of enabling equipment.
Project Innovation
The project team will seek to maximize EV truck fleet revenue and benefits from V2X services by developing and validating innovative strategies to reduce the net cost of V2X participation for medium-duty electric trucks and maximizing benefits through service-specific V2G, V2B, or V2V optimizations with EV and EVSE awareness, thereby offsetting electrification and V2X adoption costs. The team will also develop and validate control strategies to minimize battery degradation during V2X participation through a combination of adaptive battery-aware V2X rate and schedule optimization, V2X-aware battery pre-conditioning and thermal management, and real-time battery pack diagnostics and prognostics, thereby reducing V2X participation costs for electric trucks. Lastly, the team will conduct a real-world demonstration at a warehouse with Evolectric box trucks and Tellus EVSE strategically located at the end of an SCE distribution feeder.
Project Goals
Project Benefits
The project will validate and improve the value proposition of using medium-duty electric trucks to benefit the electricity grid using V2X technologies. Ideally, V2X participation will lower electrification costs for fleets while generating net benefits for the grid and ratepayers by addressing grid needs.
Key Project Members
Subrecipients
Match Partners
