Editor: A Mao
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For a long time in the past, a famous domestic hot pot brand never worried about gaining customers. At its peak, the brand served more than 160 million customers every year, with a table turnover rate of 5 times per day, almost setting the highest table turnover rate in the catering industry.
Table turnover rate is one of the most important indicators for catering companies, just like charging stations, which are currently in high demand. Anyone can clearly see that as the scale of the domestic new energy vehicle industry continues to expand, investing in charging stations will inevitably yield huge benefits.
For example, for a charging station with fast charging and good experience, new energy car owners will naturally be happy to visit. After the car is full and left, new car owners will quickly come to charge. In the same unit of time, charging stations can serve more customers, and business will naturally be better.
It seems that such simple business logic is not fully applicable to the domestic charging pile market, at least at present. On one side are emerging markets worth hundreds of billions of dollars with unlimited "money" prospects, but on the other side are investors who are holding back their money bags.
So, what is the reason?
The optimal solution for business logic
As we said at the beginning of this article, a restaurant must first be delicious before customers will be willing to come. The restaurant must also serve food quickly, otherwise the customer experience will be greatly reduced... "What are you doing? We are about to starve to death. Got it!"
Once such a situation occurs, it is another question whether this wave of customers will come again in the future, and it will inevitably affect the reception of the next wave of customers. If this cycle continues over and over again, the restaurant's business will inevitably gradually decline, and the most likely outcome will be closure.
The same goes for charging stations, maybe even worse.
Before the emergence of super charging piles, the charging time of new energy vehicles often took several hours, and the electric piles were largely occupied by vehicles that charged at extremely low speeds. Subsequent car owners often have only two choices: wait a few hours or choose another charging station.
In fact, car owners are likely to encounter the same situation at other charging stations - provided that their cars have battery life and can still drive to the next charging station. Otherwise, if they are stuck halfway due to insufficient power, then Even more embarrassing.
Under this situation, super charging piles have become the inevitable choice for charging stations and car owners. To a certain extent, the growth of the new energy vehicle industry not only depends on the advancement of car manufacturers, but is also inseparable from the development of super charging piles.
Not long ago, Huawei Digital Energy released a new generation of fully liquid-cooled supercharging architecture in Shanghai, aiming to create high-quality, sustainable charging infrastructure. Through continuous innovation, Huawei’s super charging piles have brought the fastest “one kilometer per second” charging experience.
It is not difficult to imagine that when the charging time is shortened to a cup of coffee and hundreds of kilometers of battery life can be obtained, the charging application experience of the majority of new energy car owners will suddenly rise to the level of fuel vehicles, which will make them more confident in their choice. It will also inevitably attract more potential car owners to choose new energy vehicles.
It is no exaggeration to say that the emergence of super charging piles not only makes up for one of the important shortcomings faced by traditional charging stations, but also allows this emerging field to enter a new stage of commercial development. Sufficient super charging piles are a guarantee An important foundation for the sustainable development of new energy vehicles.
How to improve power plant turnover rate
However, in addition to the above closed-loop and seemingly perfect business logic, we may still need to further clarify the underlying technical factors.
Normally, in traditional charging stations, the power of each pile is fixed. However, different brands and models of new energy vehicles have different charging powers, some as low as 20kW and some as high as 480kW.
When the charging power of new energy vehicles is less than the power of charging piles, part of the power will be idle, resulting in a waste of investment in charging stations; when the charging power of new energy vehicles is greater than the power of charging piles, charging will be slow due to insufficient power, and it will not only Car owners have a poor experience with the application, and the investment in charging stations is also wasted.
In addition to the super charging piles mentioned earlier, Huawei Digital Energy also brings innovative "power pooling" and other technologies, which can effectively help charging stations increase their "turnover rate" and receive more charging car owners per unit time, thus Achieve better return on investment (ROI).
Through technologies such as power pooling, Huawei Digital Energy divides the charging module of a traditional charging pile into two and innovatively adopts a two-level power sharing architecture. In the so-called two-level architecture, the first level forms the total power into a resource pool, and the second level uses multi-level channels to flexibly allocate power.
With the support of this technology, power resources will be dynamically and accurately allocated to different charging piles according to the different charging power requirements of the vehicle models, without causing power waste or insufficient power. While maximizing utilization, it also significantly reduces the charging time of new energy vehicles and the waiting time of car owners.
It is not difficult to imagine that with the joint support of technologies such as Huawei's super charging piles and power pooling, charging stations will achieve a higher turnover rate, completely solving the previous dilemma of artificially limited passenger flow at traditional charging stations and achieving stronger profitability. .
Not only that, in places where it is difficult to obtain electricity or expand power capacity, Huawei Digital Energy can also use a comprehensive green solution to power charging stations through photovoltaics and energy storage, greatly reducing construction and operation and maintenance costs. .
Driving thousands of miles, there will always be electricity
Of course, Huawei Digital Energy is by no means talking to itself. In fact, many cities in China have already made the above scenarios a reality with the help of Huawei.
Super charging pile stations have been built in Huanggang Park and Lianhuashan Park in Futian District, Shenzhen. With convenient locations and a large number of charging piles, more and more car owners are willing to quickly recharge their batteries here, which is both convenient and convenient. The time is short, and it can be fully charged and set off in a matter of seconds.
Guilin, with its unrivaled scenery, attracts hundreds of millions of tourists every year. The locally built Dingsheng Charging Guilin North Station supercharging station is equipped with 2 supercharging parking spaces and 10 fast charging parking spaces, which greatly meets the travel needs of online car-hailing and private cars.
On September 1 this year, the groundbreaking ceremony for the National Highway 318 Supercharged Green Corridor Project was officially held at the Binhe Road Campground in Lhasa, Tibet. Through Huawei's digital energy fully liquid-cooled supercharging technology, the station can achieve extremely fast energy replenishment of "one kilometer per second", making the "must drive 318 in this life" no longer a specialty of oil trucks.
Examples such as the above can be found in Huawei’s digital energy application cases, too numerous to mention.
Our country has undoubtedly become the world's largest new energy vehicle market. It is expected that sales will reach 10 million vehicles this year, 15 million vehicles in 2025, and the total number of vehicles in 2030 will exceed 100 million vehicles!
Correspondingly, there is a sudden increase in the number of charging piles in my country. It is expected that by 2025, the number of charging piles will exceed 24 million, and the number of public DC charging piles will exceed 6.7 million. The subsequent development speed will exceed current expectations and imagination.
To this end, relevant national authorities have intensively issued various policies and measures to promote the high-quality construction of charging piles, recommending scientific layout and moderately advanced construction of charging infrastructure systems, and fully promoting the overall development of the new energy vehicle industry.
Obviously, driven by policy, technology, and market, a new and visible era of overcharging is rapidly approaching. With the support of powerful companies such as Huawei Digital Energy, it has become an indisputable fact that cars will always have electricity when traveling thousands of miles.
Facing the future, Huawei Digital Energy will further integrate digital technology and power electronics technology, use innovative product solutions, and join hands with the industry chain to build new electric travel energy infrastructure, jointly promote high-quality development of the industry, and contribute to the goals of green travel and carbon neutrality. Make a contribution.
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