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July 2025

The Bi-CCS Summer School “Low Carbon Electricity and Mobility Concepts” sparked great interest, with over 80 BTU students registering to participate. Throughout the week-long program, participants explored key topics including renewable power generation, grid operation, energy storage, and low-emission mobility solutions.

July 2025

Prof. Harald Schwarz presented the Bi-CCS project and the potential of grid-supportive bidirectional charging to an interested audience of experts at the Mobility 2025 Innovation Forum at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute in Rüschlikon.

June 2025

At the 25th Brandenburg Energy Day, we showcased bidirectional charging of electric vehicles in a live demonstration, making V2X technology accessible to a broad audience.

June 2025

The theme of this year's Bi-CCS consortium meeting at the Startblock2 start-up center was the potential contribution of electric vehicles to security of supply and grid stability.

May 2025

Together with our partners, we presented Bi-CCS as a sponsor and exhibitor at the special exhibition "Bidirectional Charging" during Power2Drive in Munich, part of The Smarter E Europe.

April 2025

The companies EVTEC GmbH and Cariad SE have joined the project as associated partners, contributing their expertise in hardware and software development.

February 2025

The handover of Volkswagen ID. prototype vehicles to the test drivers has taken place. In the next phase, the vehicles will be integrated into real-world operations at the BTU campuses in Cottbus and Senftenberg to demonstrate a future redispatch concept.

December 2024

Prof. Harald Schwarz presents the potential contribution of bidirectionally chargeable electric vehicles to supporting the energy system at the CTI Symposium: Automotive – Powertrain – Systems in Berlin. His presentation, titled "Possible Contributions of Vehicle-to-Grid to the Electricity Sector within the German Energy Transition," highlights the role of this technology in the context of Germany’s energy transition.

Image: © CTI Symposium Germany 2024 / Photo by Foto Vogt

October 2024

The Volkswagen ID. test vehicles equipped with bidirectional charging were delivered to the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus and integrated into the V2G system demonstrator.

April 2024

The partners MitNetz Strom GmbH and ePHANT GmbH have been secured for the Bi-CCS project and are contributing their expertise as associated partners.

December 2023

The Bi-CCS project partners come together for the kick-off at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and pave the way for joint cooperation to develop the bidirectional charging system.

October 2023

The Bi-CCS consortium received funding approval from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) and secured EUR 4 million in support through the Bidirectional Fleet Power Plants 2025 program.

November 2024

The project partners gathered at Volkswagen's Research and Development Center in Wolfsburg. The second consortium meeting focused on exciting progress updates and engaged discussions on integrating electric vehicle batteries as decentralized electricity storage systems within the energy system.

September 2024

The first bidirectionally chargeable ID vehicles with ID3.5 and ID5.X software were handed over at a press event at Volkswagen AG's brand headquarters.

July 2024

The bidirectional grid control signal based on Stromnetz Berlin's ePager technology was successfully tested and integrated into the system as a grid control variable.

January 2025

The Bi-CCS consortium has joined the International Energy Agency's (IEA) Task 53 - Interoperability of Bidirectional Charging (INBID) to strengthen interoperability in the bidirectional charging ecosystem.

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