The Next Frontier in Electric Vehicle Charging and Battery Swapping?
Jul 19, 2024
Imagine yourself in a bustling commercial center's parking lot, desperately searching for an available charging pile, or facing long queues for charging during holidays on the highway. Consider seeking out the surrounding mobile charging support services. By scanning a QR code or searching for a mini-program, you can quickly place an order. The mobile charging robot with intelligent driving capabilities will be at your service in no time to charge your electric vehicle.
According to investigative journalism, following charging piles and battery swap stations, mobile charging robots have emerged as a new investment direction in the charging and swapping market, with more than forty related companies rushing in one after another, attempting to open up a new realm.
Despite having the world's largest number of charging infrastructures, the most extensive coverage area, and serving the most comprehensive range of vehicles, China's charging infrastructure still faces issues such as irrational layout, unbalanced services, lack of operational standards, insufficient overall planning, imbalance between fast and slow charging piles, inadequate maintenance capabilities, low utilization rates in remote areas, and insufficient charging service supply in hotspot areas and during holidays.
More importantly, the construction speed of fixed charging and swapping supporting facilities cannot keep up with the growth rate of new energy vehicle sales. The data released recently by the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance shows that in the first half of this year, the increase in charging infrastructure was 16.47 million units, up by 14.2% year-on-year; the ratio of pile to car growth was 1:3. The statistical data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers show that in the first half of 2024, the sales of new energy vehicles in China reached 4.944 million units, a year-on-year increase of 32%. Obviously, the growth rate of vehicles is significantly faster than the construction speed of piles.
"Simply increasing the number of charging piles and swap stations cannot completely solve the supporting problems of charging infrastructure," said Wang Wei, the Vice President of Technology at Beijing Zhongneng Congcong Technology Co., Ltd. "Our founding team has been thinking about how to break the spatial and temporal limitations of fixed charging and swapping facilities, allowing electric vehicle charging to be available on demand."
There are pain points, there are needs, and there are services. After fully investigating the pain points in the charging and swapping market, companies such as Zhongneng Congcong and Heima Yuanli have started to develop mobile charging robots, committed to solving the charging problem of not having a charging pile on the parking spot or not being able to find a charging station.
A mobile charging robot is not just a simple mobile charging pile. According to Wang Wei, the mobile charging robot is a fusion product of a charging pile and a mobile robot. It is based on smart IoT technology, integrating core capabilities such as mobile commercial energy storage, charging piles, emergency power protection, and peak-valley arbitrage, providing users with green, flexible intelligent charging services.
Many players have already poured into the mobile charging robot segment, but how big is the market prospect? "Currently, it is still relatively niche and can be an important supplement," said Liu Yanlong, the former Secretary-General of the China Industrial Association of Power Sources. "Mobile charging robots cover more travel scenarios than fixed charging piles and swap stations, and they are quite convenient to use, but whether they can become one of the mainstream charging and discharging methods still needs to be observed."
Wang Wei is optimistic about the market prospect of mobile charging robots: "With the continuous rise of the private new energy vehicle ownership, this market is bound to enter an explosive period." Wu Tian gave a specific time node: 2030. According to the forecast of relevant experts, by 2030, the ownership of new energy vehicles in China will reach 100 million units.
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