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We Drive Solar wins Charging Infrastructure Innovation Award Belgium

We Drive Solar-CEO Robin Berg ontvangt de award uit handen van presentator Wim De Vilder. ProMedia, 2026

Young start-up We Drive Solar wins the Charging Infra Innovation Award, it was announced today in Brussels on the sidelines of Congress Charging Infra Belgium. The Dutch company was awarded for its innovative AC V2G charger that allows cars to deliver power back to the grid.

With the charger, We Drive Solar shows how electric shared cars can actively help solve grid congestion and make the energy system more sustainable. Therefore, in a European first, it set up a fully operational vehicle-to-grid (V2G) ecosystem in Utrecht, in which electric cars not only take power, but also feed it back to the grid.

We Drive Solar’s bi-directional V2G charging stations play a crucial role in that project. Electric cars from Renault and shared cars from MyWheels are used there as temporary energy storage. When there is a surplus of solar and wind energy, the cars charge; when demand is high, they feed power back into the grid. This reduces peak loads in the evening and limits the use of fossil energy.

The first results showed that this approach works: grid congestion was demonstrably reduced, renewable energy was better utilised and residents benefit from affordable, sustainable mobility. The concept is now being scaled up to hundreds of vehicles. The jury of the Laadinfra Innovatie Award saw how that could be a solution for cities all over the Netherlands and Europe, and decided to award the company again, after it also won the national award on the subject at Congres Laadinfra Nederland in 2025.

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This article was automatically translated from the Dutch language original to English (British).

Author: Matthieu Van Steenkiste

Source: MobilityEnergy.com

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