Today, the Dutch current-affairs programme EenVandaag covered something V2G Liberty has been doing for years: using your electric car not just to drive, but also as a battery — to earn money and to relieve the overloaded power grid. Thijs de Back, a V2G Liberty user from the very start,…
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A few weeks ago, V2G Liberty 0.8.0 was released. The headline feature? Full insight into your own charging and discharging data. You can now see at a glance how much energy you’ve charged and fed back, what it cost you (or earned you), and the CO₂ involved. Zoom in down…
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Not every release is the result of a carefully planned roadmap. Sometimes it’s simply: something breaks, you fix it. Version 0.7.6 is that kind of release. What happened We were deep into structural improvements when a new release of FlexMeasures — one of the core components V2G Liberty depends on…
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We have just released v0.7.5 — a targeted update that fixes one specific problem: the “Charge” and “Discharge” buttons sometimes responded slowly or not at all. What was going on? When manually starting charging or discharging — for example via “Max boost now” — the system first retrieved the current…
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Today I attended the first Residential Flexibility conference by ElaadNL in Arnhem, the Netherlands. ElaadNL — well known for their testing work around smart EV charging — is expanding their scope to the entire home: heat pumps, home batteries, solar inverters and chargers, all coordinated by a Home Energy Management…
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V2G Liberty has been around for a number of years, but a blog was missing. That changes today. For those curious about how it all started, have a look at our About page. A lot has happened recently. The website has been refreshed, we now support multiple chargers, and the…
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Since 1 January 2026, EV drivers in the Netherlands with a home charger can earn money through ERE certificates (Emission Reduction Units). For every kWh charged, you receive approximately €0.10 via a registered service provider. The idea is straightforward: oil companies pay, electric drivers benefit. The polluter pays, the green…
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