(Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)Technology to connect EVs to the electricity grid is no longer a "mythical thing on the horizon". "I've been working in this area for 18 years and vehicle-to-grid technology has always been this mythical thing on the horizon," he says. Vehicle-to-grid technology will connect electric cars to the electricity grid, allowing them to be used as powerful batteries in addition to getting drivers from A to B. Ensuring automakers allow V2G technology has been one of the major barriers to its availability in Australia, Jet Charge chief executive Tim Washington says. "It is definitely the reason why some people will choose to buy an electric car," she says.