GM’S new products could be pioneering

New V2H accessory lets customers power homes

DETROIT – General Motors, through its GM Energy business unit, started selling products on Thursday to let people power their homes using their GM electric vehicles.

GM said these new products could mitigate weather-related power outages and integrate with future clean energy products to boost personal grid resiliency.

The products are being sold in bundles and accessible through current GM mobile brand apps, allowing customers to manage the transfer of stored energy between applicable and connected GM Energy products.

“We believe our EVS will afford customers ways to use that excess energy from their EV to power their home,” said Aseem Kapur, chief revenue officer for GM Energy.

Here are the products that are available with GM Energy:

h GM Energy Powershift charger: A bidirectional charger for $1,699.

h GM Energy V2H (vehicle-tohome) Enablement kit: Includes the bidirectional charger and an inverter, home hub and a dark start battery for $5,600.

h GM Energy V2H Bundle: This includes the GM Energy Enablement Kit and the bidirectional charger all in one for $7,300.

h Installation service: GM Energy will refer customers to Qmerit, which will provide an installation quote for any of the products based on location, energy usage, and additional factors.

The products, which can be purchased at gmenergy.gm.com, are currently compatible for use only with the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV Firstedition RST2 pickup, due out in a few months, Kapur said.

Going forward, GM will expand V2H bidirectional charging technology across its entire retail portfolio of Ultium-based EVS by model year 2026, and is looking to expand it for use with non-gm EVS in the future, Kapur said. He said the Chevrolet Blazer EV will be compatible with the products soon. Customers who already bought the Blazer EV would need a software update.

Oftentimes, people who use solar power in their homes will buy stationary storage, or home battery storage systems, so that they can store the solar power they don’t use, Kapur said. He said GM Energy is not yet releasing pricing for that product, but said it will be competitive with what’s on the market now.

According to Marketwatch, a home battery storage system can cost more than $10,000.

GM announced the creation of GM Energy in 2022. The business unit consists of residential, commercial and public charging solutions so that business, residential and EV customers can manage their energy usage.

Each GM Energy product will be connected to the GM Energy Cloud, a software platform that lets customers manage the transfer of energy between GM Energy assets.