On November 8, on the 4th floor of the convenient three-dimensional parking lot next to the Gongda Bridge in Chaoyang District, Beijing, the Jingneng Super Charging Station (Gongda Bridge Station) was officially put into operation. The first phase of the station is equipped with 10 intelligent fast charging piles developed by Smart Charge Technology, with a total power of 1,200?kW. Users can enjoy two hours of free parking as long as they are charging, and the station is also equipped with rest rooms and other convenient service facilities. Song Zhaoxing, chairman of Jingneng High-Tech, said: "The use of the parking resources to build fast charging stations, so that convenient parking and convenient charging into one, will greatly alleviate the problem of charging difficulties of the surrounding residents. At the end of the year, the station will also add several high-power charging piles to radiate the surrounding commercial office buildings and other users. Demonstrate the responsibility of the capital enterprises to respond to the development of new energy and serve the society and people's livelihood."
Following a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in March this year, new energy vehicle charging piles were included in the category of "new infrastructure" along with the construction of 5G base stations, ultra-high voltage, intercity high-speed railroads and inter-city rail transportation, big data centers, artificial intelligence and industrial Internet***. In October, the State Council executive meeting through the "new energy automobile industry development plan", clearly put forward to accelerate the formation of fast-charging-based highway and urban and rural public **** charging network, as a public **** facilities charging pile construction to give financial support to encourage.
Industry frequently welcomes favorable policies, 2020 is worth being redefined as the first year of the charging pile industry outbreak. Starting from 09, experienced the industry start, contestants fish in a row, industry high-speed development after falling into stagnation, elimination and consolidation of new energy vehicle charging industry, in 2020 the policy and the market under the dual-support, entered another round of consolidation period. Who can truly understand the future trend of the charging pile industry, who can seize the opportunity to dominate.
Following the east wind of the policy, a large amount of capital competing in which, not only the various provinces and municipalities and regions promulgated to promote the charging facilities layout action plan, companies have also accelerated the pace of investment and entry. In May of this year, Shanghai launched an action program, is expected to build 100,000 new electric vehicle charging piles in 3 years. in June, Beijing also proposed that in 2022, no less than 50,000 new electric vehicle charging piles will be built, the construction of 100 or so switching stations. Energy companies are not willing to lag behind, the State Grid announced that in 2020 will invest 2.7 billion yuan to build 78,000 new charging piles. Southern Power Grid announced plans to invest 25.1 billion yuan in the next four years to build charging facilities, built 150 large-scale centralized charging stations, charging pile 380,000.
Beijing Jingneng High-tech Energy Technology Co., Ltd. belongs to Beijing Energy Group Co.
Into the charging service industry, "investment and construction", "equipment", "operation and maintenance", that is, the initial capital investment, equipment and hardware and later charging station operation is the Three inevitable to consider the link. Looking around the charging industry market, there are roughly the following modes, "equipment", "construction", "operation and maintenance" all by the same subject is responsible for, which will result in a huge pre-investment and post Operation and maintenance pressure, the threshold is high, and difficult to profit, in the industry only star charging, special call and part of the car companies can apply this model; the second, is "equipment", "construction", "operation and maintenance The second one is that "equipment", "construction" and "operation and maintenance" are responsible by different subjects, however, this model will lead to risk dispersion and profit dispersion; the third model is that "equipment" is produced by a pile enterprise, and "construction" and "operation and maintenance" are produced by another enterprise. The third model is that the "equipment" is produced by one pile enterprise, and the "construction", "operation and maintenance" is done by another party, but this model requires that the construction, operation and maintenance party has both capital and operation service, publicity and attraction ability, and in the actual operation process, it often fails to meet the demand for improvement and optimization of the equipment.
Jingneng Hi-Tech obviously did not adopt the above three models, as the main body of the "construction", it will "equipment" and "operation and maintenance" all entrusted to the Manufacturing equipment and have rich experience in the operation of the pile enterprise and charging service operators - smart charging technology, as the construction party, jingneng high and new technology only need to pay for the purchase of equipment can be, do not need to operate the experience, hosting to the smart charging technology can be situated to collect most of the profits. Once the operation needs any adjustment and optimization, due to the "operation and maintenance" and "equipment" is the same party, can also be the fastest speed in the hardware equipment and software system on the ground to achieve.
The cooperation between Jingneng Hi-Tech and Zhichong marks the beginning of a new attitude of state-owned enterprises to face the charging market, utilizing the core resources of both sides, and giving full play to the advantages of each side, to quickly build a charging service brand and layout of the charging network.
This fast and smooth solution requires only three days at the earliest: in the case of existing electricity, the delivery of charging equipment, on-site construction of ZhiChong takes only one day, the next day to do equipment debugging, the ZhiChong equipment comes with a platform, payment function, as long as the power is turned on, you can be connected to the network, deployed in 5 minutes, users can directly WeChat sweep code payment, after all the arrangements, the third day can be officially opened.
The above mentioned equipment hardware and later charging station operation are handed over to the pile enterprise mode, is once not optimistic about the business. 2015, Ding Rui from Tesla left to create the smart charging technology, he will be smart charging R & D team is divided into two parts, one part of the research and development of IoT intelligent charging piles, the other part of the R & D operation and management of back-end systems, with "intelligent hardware + software SaaS", "intelligent", "intelligent", "intelligent", "intelligent", "intelligent" and "intelligent".
This most labor-intensive model, which was once not viewed favorably by investors, has helped Smart Charge stand out as the player behind the operators, doubling its revenue in 2019 and gaining an invitation to operate on behalf of Jingneng Hi-Tech, making it the first case in which a state-owned energy group is empowered by a startup technology company.
In terms of hardware, Smart Charge Technology has developed fully intelligent AC (slow charging) and DC (fast charging) products,*** with six categorized models to meet different scenarios and different users' needs. Combined with 5G technology, Smart Charge's intelligent charging piles can automate the charging process with users, realize automatic yard management by connecting to ground locks, parking gates, etc., realize low-cost C-suite service platform construction through WeChat public number deployment, identify vehicles and batteries through intelligent communication systems, and quickly maintain equipment through automated troubleshooting.
In terms of software, Smart Charge has developed a set of data-driven, process-oriented SaaS management system similar to the Meituan Merchant Edition or Ali Nail, which covers all the functions required to operate charging piles, such as: asset management (piles, stations, drivers), financial management (charging, refunds, invoicing), efficiency management (membership system, marketing system), after-sales service (online customer service, online troubleshooting), data analysis and management, etc., and according to customer needs to continue to introduce new features free of charge to enhance user efficiency and experience.
Ding Rui mentioned that he hopes to build a set of public **** solution that can be used by any small, medium or large customers to operate their to?C (author's note: to drivers) charging services. At present, the rapid development of value-added and on behalf of the operation services of ZhiCharge Technology, in-depth accumulation of industry experience, has a customer base of more than 20 provinces and municipalities across the country, serving thousands of charging piles, with an average utilization rate of 30.3%. As of October this year, the average annual revenue of DC piles of Smart Charge customers exceeded 150,000 yuan per pile.
Operation services are more than just hardware and software support, they are customized charging solutions. From the preliminary planning and design, construction management, operation and management after the completion of the operation and maintenance of the field station and other services, all of which can achieve 7 * 24 localized operation. For example, through 53 evaluation elements and 122 evaluation indicators, we select sites for customers under the accurate big data model based on the layout of urban charging network; reasonably configure product solutions for customers and predict investment returns in advance; design products according to the requirements of local power supply enterprises, and carry out debugging and on-line operation after the equipment is installed in the place; design and implement rich on-line and off-line marketing activities for charging stations; and realize 7*24 localized operation through real-time monitoring and 7*24 localized operation of the stations. The perfect payment system can support the third-party platform monitoring, charging water to the account in seconds, etc.
The charging system can support the third-party platform monitoring and charging water to the account in seconds.
It is worth mentioning that Smart Charge Technology has cooperated with 90% of the new energy flow entrances, and has a first-class integration service platform in China, with a large flow base and a very large commercial diversion value.
Currently, SmartCharge has formed a set of new charging ecological concept combining "intelligent equipment" + "cloud services". The use of advanced mobile clients, background networking management and other revolutionary technologies to make electric vehicle charging pile is no longer a single-function "electrical appliances", to become one of China's most promising, most technologically advanced charging equipment and solutions provider. The cooperation with Jingneng Hi-Tech is a successful case of empowering state-owned enterprises with the smart charging model, which is also a win-win model for state-owned enterprises to join the charging pile industry.
This article comes from the authors of Auto Home Car, and does not represent the viewpoint position of Auto Home.