AllDayEnergy: Hyundai's UK Launch Starts With Smart Charging, Not Home Power
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Hyundai Motor Group's new AllDayEnergy platform starts in the UK via the Kia App in late 2026 with V1G smart charging only. Bidirectional V2G and V2H power will follow later, with no confirmed date.
The name AllDayEnergy promises to turn an electric car into part of the home and city energy system. Yet in the second half of 2026, UK users of the Kia App will only get the first tier of the service — V1G smart charging. Feeding electricity back into the home or the grid won’t be possible at launch.
Hyundai Motor Group has brought three different modes together under the new brand. V1G times charging around tariffs, grid conditions and the owner’s preferences. V2G lets stored energy be sold or returned to the electricity grid, while V2H powers the home, including during a power cut. Both of the latter features are due later, but the company hasn’t given a firm date.
Pieces of the system are already being trialled or used. A V2G pilot is running on South Korea’s Jeju Island, in the US electric vehicles have served as backup power for homes during major wildfires, and in the Netherlands Hyundai is developing bidirectional, tariff-aware charging. AllDayEnergy’s rollout is planned for Europe, the US and South Korea, though the list of compatible models, hardware and tariffs hasn’t been published yet.
32CARS.RU previously covered a similar system from Nissan and Valeo, designed to turn electric cars into a manageable part of the energy grid. For Hyundai, renaming its scattered services makes them easier to market, but real value only arrives once V2G and V2H go live. Until then, AllDayEnergy remains mainly a smart-tariff charging planner.
