Car stuff (public number: chedongxi)
Author | Juice
Edited by | Xiaohan
The Ningde era has entered the game, and the power exchange market has added a giant player.
Just today, catheter times held a press conference to officially announce the entry into the power exchange market. As a big leader in the field of power batteries, Times Electric Service under CATL officially launched the EVOGO power exchange service brand.
According to Chen Weifeng, general manager of Times Electric Service, the overall solution of the combined power exchange of Ningde Era mainly includes three major products: power exchange block, quick change station and APP.
▲Chen Weifeng, general manager of Times Electric Service
CATL has specially developed a chocolate exchange block, which is small in size but high in energy density, which is suitable for most electric vehicle platforms and can also be freely combined; it also launched a quick change station, which has the characteristics of small footprint, fast circulation and all-climate.
In addition, CATL has also launched a supporting APP, providing interconnection and services for people, vehicles, stations and blocks.
FAW Besturn NTA combination replacement version will be the first model to support the CATL era power exchange service. CATL also announced that the first batch of express stations will be laid out in 10 cities, but it is not clear which cities will be laid out.
Although many car companies have announced that they have entered the power exchange market, but mainly for their own models, the replacement power stations of different car companies cannot open up to each other. As a battery factory, the Ningde era can unify the specifications of the battery from the battery production stage, so that more car companies can directly change the power through the fast change station of the Ningde era, and the short board of electric vehicles will also be compensated.
With the direct entry of the Ningde era, the power exchange market may be completely stirred.
▲CATL released the power exchange brand EVOGO
First, the release of a combination of power exchange system Three major products are the key
Chen Weifeng introduced that users may only use 10 to 20% of the battery in their daily driving, but for occasional long-distance travel, they will also choose to buy models with large-capacity batteries. Although it has been satisfied in terms of battery life, it is still a difficult problem stuck in front of consumers.
Therefore, the vehicle-electricity separation model has begun to be accepted by the majority of car companies, and the Ningde era also recognizes this path, believing that the battery can be independent as a shared asset.
The EVOGO power exchange service brand of the Ningde era covers three major products: power exchange block, quick change station and APP, among these three products, the power exchange block is the most core product.
▲ Ningde era chocolate for electric block
CATL specially developed a chocolate power exchange block, which has three major advantages. First, small and high energy, it adopts the latest CTP technology in the Ningde era, the weight energy density reaches 160Wh/kg, the volume energy density reaches 325Wh/L, a single battery can provide 200 kilometers of endurance, and adapt to most pure electric platform models.
▲The energy density of chocolate exchange blocks in the Ningde era is high
Second, it can be freely combined, and according to different endurance needs, you can freely choose one, two or three pieces.
▲The chocolate exchange block of the Ningde era can be freely combined
The third is the minimalist design, which for the first time adopts wireless BMS technology, cancels the wiring harness in the original battery, and there is only a high-voltage positive and negative interface outside the entire exchange block, which further improves the reliability of the plugged and unplugged components.
CATL will also participate in the construction of the express station, which has the advantage of a small area, fast circulation and full climate. Specifically, a standard station only needs 3 parking spaces, the replacement time of a single battery is 1 minute, and the entire change station can store 48 power exchange blocks.
▲Ningde Times Express Station
In order to cope with different climatic environments, Ningde times also has different versions of the shuttle station to choose from, which improves the practicality of the change station.
The last product is an exclusive APP, which connects people, cars, stations and power blocks, which can realize one-click power exchange, further improving the efficiency of power exchange.
Second, one electric vehicle can be used in one hundred cities
It is reported that the EVOGO power exchange service brand in the Ningde era also has three major characteristics.
The first is "one electric multi-vehicle", based on the development principle of universal adaptation, EVOGO's chocolate exchange block can be applied to passenger cars and logistics vehicles from A00 class to B class and C class; the replacement power station can also be adapted to various models using chocolate power exchange block to achieve free power exchange.
▲Ningde era chocolate exchange block can achieve one electric multi-car
The second is "on-demand rental electricity", because each chocolate exchange block has a range of about 200 kilometers, users can freely choose the number of rental replacement blocks according to their own travel needs.
If the user has been traveling in the city, then you can rent a chocolate power exchange block, if you need a long trip, you can choose two or three power exchange blocks, and then change back to one after returning to the city.
▲ Users can rent electricity on demand
The third is "rechargeable and replaceable", the power exchange solution provided by EVOGO can form a full-scenario energy replenishment method with the existing home charging and fast charging network.
It is reported that the FAW Besturn NTA combination replacement version will be the first model to support the Cataline era power exchange service, and there will be a number of models that will join the Ningde era power exchange family. The first batch of CATL will select 10 cities for the deployment of express stations.
▲FAW Besturn NTA combination power exchange version
Conclusion: The Ningde era provides a new way to change electricity
Although the game of changing electricity has existed for a long time, there are also many car companies participating, but a careful study will find that most of the current car companies' replacement stations are to replace the entire battery, and the replaced battery takes a long time to charge, reducing the efficiency of the replacement power station.
On the other hand, due to the different specifications of the battery, the car companies cannot share the replacement power station, which also causes the waste of the power station resources to a certain extent.
Catalonia directly launched the chocolate power exchange block, which can choose the number of power exchange blocks according to different needs, can make better use of the resources of the power exchange block, and adopts a unified specification of the battery block, which can also make the models of different car companies change the power.
It is not difficult to find that the Ningde era actually provides a new idea of power exchange, and with the large-scale development of power exchange services in the Ningde era, it may also bring different changes to the field of power exchange.