Nissan’s new regional office in France will use electric car technology to power the offices — in fact, it will be implementing the world’s largest grid-integrated electric vehicle (EV) system. Taking place thanks to the Japanese EV manufacturer, it will be another step towards a cleaner environment.

Nissan will install 100 vehicle-to-grid (V2G) chargers. Nissan’s partner Enel will provide the chargers.

Paul Willcox, chairman of Nissan Europe, made an announcement about this project at the Geneva Motor Show: “By demonstrating that electric vehicles can play an integral part in the energy management systems of the future, this project is a watershed moment on our journey towards a fully electric future.”

By drawing energy from the grid at off-peak times, and using the Nissan’s electric vehicle batteries to store and transfer energy at opportune times, there’s expected to be a net benefit in selling electricity back to the grid. “It will also feature a 1 MWh energy storage system, from Nissan’s partner EATON, the battery storage experts, powered by 64 Nissan LEAF second-life EV batteries combined with solar energy generation.”

Over the next few years, “The systems […]