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Individually owned vehicles are the most widely adopted electric vehicles in the United States. However, these vehicles as well as their chargers are not currently enabled for V2G participation there. Fortunately, a trial V2G program that is a partnership between Enel and Nissan of Europe has been underway in Denmark since 2015 [18], which allows owners of Nissan Leaf models to supply energy to the grid. If this program is successful, a similar partnership is scheduled to begin in Italy and Germany [19].

For 2018, the new Nissan Leaf model has been approved for V2G integration. It is the first EV to gain such an approval [20]. Based on our assumption that bi-directional charging equipment will become widely available in the near-future to interested EV owners in the United States, we believe that individual EVs will be a good alternative for peak power V2G integration between 2020 and 2025. Furthermore, with battery capacities increasing with each EV announced, individual EVs should have a sufficient SoC to support peak demand integration during the peak hours of 4 to 9 pm.