Street lights "transformed" charging pile

Tesla set off the climax of electric cars. Many people are eager to enter the clean and fashionable new energy vehicles to enter the homes of ordinary people. I believe that in addition to acceptable prices, solving the charging problem anytime and anywhere is tricky. Building an electric vehicle charging network is a huge undertaking. Who can make charging as easy as refuelling? Recently, the practice of a company called ubitricity may give us some hope and inspiration!

The smart cord that can be wirelessly accessed by ubitricity, a startup company in Berlin, can make the charging process of electric vehicles simple and smooth during the charging process. Paid billing is also timely and accurate and can be done very conveniently. This is one of the many ways that ubitricity can reduce the cost of charging systems.

Everywhere street lights turned into charging piles

Traditional charging stations cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (euro). The ubitricity method is to install outlets on street lights or existing outdoor devices. Of the 100 million existing lampposts in Germany, approximately 1-2% can be retrofitted into charging points (its original grid connection capability and position of the lampposts make the overall charging feasible). Newly built or gradually updated street lights (about 300,000) can be easily integrated into the charging infrastructure clock each year. Based on these, it is promising to reduce the cost of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

Currently ubitricity has already established 100 similar charging points in Berlin. The power supplier Grundgrün in Berlin predicts that each street light in Berlin will have this charging function. There will also be 60 such charge points spread out in the Lake Constance area.

But at the moment, ubitricity's "intelligence" for this smart wire network is currently limited to the use of its company's outlets. Although ubitricity's technology is currently not openly compatible, we can see from it the reduction in the cost of electric charging facilities. I believe that more such technologies will emerge in the future, and reducing costs will be a matter of time.

There is also follow-up in China. Innovative charging network solutions are an important support for the promotion of electric vehicles.

The problem of charging networks is really tricky at the moment – ​​the initial investment in infrastructure is very large, and various standards and supporting facilities are not perfect (this is especially the case in China). In China, a sound charging system has not yet been established, and the entire charging network has not been uniformly planned and coordinated, although the number of electric vehicles currently on the road has also greatly reduced the driving force.

At present, the most powerful force is Tesla's electric vehicle manufacturers, who are building their own charging networks. If more innovative solutions such as those mentioned in the text can emerge, such as the more mature technology of street light charging points, even the detachable rental business of car batteries (batteries can be a kind of goods leased in stores, cars can Replacement of fully charged batteries at stores and payment of rental fees and service fees is a method of supplementing the charging infrastructure. However, it also requires improving battery technology to enable better modularization and standardization of batteries. . Ubitricity has already taken a step forward in reducing the cost of charging networks. In Beijing, the current State Power NARI has also carried out a pilot renovation of street lighting charging stations in Changping, and will be more widely promoted in Yizhuang Development Zone in the future. I believe These are the good beginnings for ushering in the era of new energy vehicles.