RedEarth Energy Storage has partnered with ambibox, a leading DC electric vehicle (EV) charging company, to produce vehicle-to-grid (V2G) bidirectional EV chargers for Australian and New Zealand customers from their manufacturing facility in Darra, Queensland.

The partnership will deliver Australian-made DC EV chargers to EV owners without rooftop solar or home batteries in the first half of 2025. This will allow EV owners to use V2X including both vehicle-to-home and V2G technologies to charge or discharge their EVs to their homes or the grid as part of RedEarth’s private power plant (PPP) ecosystem.

“While rooftop solar and home battery ownership have traditionally been the drivers of the growth of distributed energy resources in Australia, the adoption of EVs has accelerated,” RedEarth co-founder and chief executive Charles Walker says.

“RedEarth’s partnership with ambibox opens new opportunities for electric vehicle owners to use their EVs as private power plants. With the introduction of V2X standards, RedEarth and ambibox will optimise the returns for EV owners and homeowners with behind-the-meter assets and we’ll be well placed to serve customers as EV adoption gathers pace.”

Founded in 2013, RedEarth is at the forefront of Australia’s energy innovation with its residential and C and I batteries manufactured in Brisbane. With ambibox, the EV chargers produced will be three-phase compatible wall chargers successfully tested with the vast majority of EVs available in Australia. The three-phase EV charger is on track to be available in the second quarter of 2025 with a single-phase version expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2025.