ChargePoint, one of the major US charging network companies for EVs, announced a two-way charger than can feed electricity from the car battery into the grid, not just take electricity from it.

It brings EV drivers one step closer to selling electricity from their car batteries that can have extra value, especially when the grid is strained by heatwaves.

For the past few years, charging networks, delivery fleets and retail hubs have been hustling to add infrastructure to provide juice to electric cars. The next step: helping drivers sell excess electrons back to the grid.

ChargePoint Holdings Inc., a Silicon Valley-based company that operates roughly 35,000 fast-charging ports in the US, announced this week a new kind of station that will pump power to and from vehicles, as opposed to t

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