Renault and EDF plan EV, home charger and V2G bundles for French homes

Renault Group and EDF aim to sell French households an electric car, a home charging station and smart charging management as one package through Renault Group's dealership network, with the charger installed by EDF subsidiary IZI by EDF, the two companies announced on October 8, 2026. The agreement covers single-family homes and includes services that let the car power household uses or feed the grid. The companies expect the offers to roll out by summer 2027.

The headline benefit is measured in kilometers, not euros. Per the release, bidirectional charging, including vehicle-to-grid (V2G), reduces charging costs, "delivering savings equivalent to up to 10,000 km of driving per year." A footnote makes that depend on the vehicle model, its energy consumption, and how long it stays connected to the home charger. The release, published in the same words on EDF's press page, gives no price for the package, no tariff and no sales target, so the three variables the footnote names are the whole of the arithmetic on offer.

What the partnership covers

The agreement sets out three areas of cooperation for single-family homes: selling and installing charging stations; developing services to make EV charging easier and to optimize it; and creating new services that let the car's energy power certain household uses or flow back to the grid when needed. The release says Renault Group and EDF are developing technologies that let electric vehicles from the Renault, Alpine and Dacia brands return part of the electricity stored in their batteries when plugged in, "without affecting the vehicle's day-to-day use."

EDF's side brings two subsidiaries to the deal: IZI by EDF, which is to operate the charger installation, and Dreev, part of EDF Business Services. Christelle Vives, president of EDF Business Services, said EDF's smart charging expertise is "already deployed by our subsidiary Dreev to more than 100,000 customers across France and Europe."

Both sides pitch the deal in national terms. Jérôme Faton, Renault Group's VP Customer Experience & Energy, called it a response to "two major concerns for French consumers: purchasing power and the energy transition." Vives framed it as two French companies advancing "competitive, sovereign and low-carbon mobility." The release describes Renault Group as the leading seller of electric vehicles in France, and EDF says it supplies energy and services to around 41 million customers.

Renault's second route to V2G

Renault is not new to selling V2G in France. On October 22, 2024, The Mobility House announced that it, Renault Group and Mobilize had launched V2G in France for the Renault 5 and Alpine A290, sold with the PowerBox Verso AC charging station and the Mobilize Power electricity contract. The Mobility House said France was the first country to enable V2G for EV owners and that Renault 5 owners could now charge and drive for free.

That offer has since been reorganized inside Renault. On December 12, 2025, Renault Group moved the energy business of its Mobilize Beyond Automotive unit into its commercial operations, citing the commercial bidirectional charging offer it launched in France in 2024, and discontinued other Mobilize activities, including the Duo electric quadricycle. On April 7, 2026, it announced a new name for its charging activities, Plug Inn, taking effect for fast-charging stations in France from April and for its other services by the end of 2026, and listed "Plug Inn powerbox" as its bidirectional charging solution with a V2G service. Faton is quoted in both that announcement and the EDF one.

That leaves a buyer with an open question. Renault already markets one bidirectional offer in France, Plug Inn powerbox, and the EDF agreement plans bidirectional services of its own, expected by summer 2027; the October 8 release never mentions Plug Inn, Mobilize Power or The Mobility House and does not say how the two relate. The pitches differ too: The Mobility House sold the 2024 offer as free charging, while the new release puts savings at the equivalent of up to 10,000 km of driving a year.

Dealer bundles elsewhere

The dealership channel has a recent precedent in the US. Pacific Gas and Electric and GM Energy's Smart Charge Bundle, announced on September 23, 2026, also sells a home charger and managed charging at the point of sale of a new EV and PG&E's terms restrict it to a single-family home or detached residence, the same housing the Renault and EDF agreement is written for. It came with numbers: a charger at no additional hardware cost, which the release valued at up to $1,999, and a $15 monthly credit on the customer's PG&E bill.

Carmakers have also teamed with energy retailers on V2G before. In Australia, BYD's Sealion 7 joined Amber Electric's V2G program in September 2026; Amber counts more than 50 live V2G sites and says the program is scaling to 1,000 households. In Germany, where The Mobility House said in 2024 that the rules for V2G were still being worked out, the Bundesnetzagentur adopted its MiSpeL determination on October 1, 2026, which lets a bidirectional EV charge point, like a home battery, charge from both rooftop solar and the grid and still collect the EEG market premium on the share of exports counted as solar.

Renault and EDF expect a rollout by summer 2027 and offer a footnoted ceiling. The price list, and how the EDF package and Plug Inn's V2G service fit together, are the parts still to come.