The cold wind brought a heavy snow to Beijing, and some people were happy and some were worried. Citizens are enjoying the fun of snowflakes, while electric car owners are suffering from the rapid power loss.
As an electric vehicle owner, buying a car is about the same as buying anxiety. The owner of a new energy brand complained about "outdoor static 10 kilometers a day", and the driver of the new energy network car is practicing, wearing a thick cotton jacket in the car, in order to save the power of the air conditioner.
How proud electric car owners are in the middle of summer, and how panicked they are in winter.
In the early years, electric vehicle owners generally did not dare to drive on the highway, because of the cruising range of about 300km, in the face of high-speed road conditions will be particularly tight, which also caused the earliest anxiety of electric vehicles - endurance anxiety.
And when car companies have opened the "arms race" of mileage, after the mileage of electric vehicles continues to break through 600, 700 or even 1000 kilometers, the owners who are finally assured to boldly go to the high speed will face more difficult "charging anxiety".
Charging anxiety, all the time accompanied by new energy vehicle life. On the one hand, it is difficult for car owners to find a sufficient number of public charging piles when needed; on the other hand, if owners want to install private charging piles at home, it is not difficult. Especially the old community, it is "as difficult as ascending to the sky".
When charging anxiety becomes a common phenomenon, how is the industry cracking charging anxiety?
#01
When the pile finally broke through the million
Data released by the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance shows that in 2021, the total number of charging piles in the mainland will continue to maintain the momentum of rapid growth.
Growth of public charging piles
Overall, the mainland's charging infrastructure will increase by 936,000 units in 2021. Among them, the increase in public charging piles was 340,000 units, and the average monthly increase in public charging piles was about 28,300 units, an increase of 89.9% year-on-year; the increase in charging piles for car accessories reached 597,000 units, an increase of 323.9% year-on-year.
Tong Zongqi, director of the Information Department of the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance, said that after an increase of 936,000 units, the total amount of charging infrastructure in the mainland reached 2.617 million units, an increase of 70.1% year-on-year. In 2021, the total charging capacity reached 11.15 billion kWh, an increase of 58.0% year-on-year. This shows that the demand for electric vehicle charging in the mainland is continuing to grow rapidly.
From the data of public charging piles, in 2021, the overall number of public charging piles exceeded 1 million units, reaching 1.147 million units. From the perspective of operators' operations, the operators of the first 4 public charging piles account for the vast majority of the number of public charging piles, and the top four have formed a trend of "four strong".
Operators form head four
Among them, the 4th cloud fast charging is three times the number of charging piles compared with the 5th place China Southern Power Grid. In terms of data, the number of star charging piles has exceeded 257,000, ranking first in the number. In previous years, the special call that insisted on the layout of the charging pile ranked second.
The two have not yet opened a significant gap, and the market pattern will continue to change in 2022.
At a time when the development of charging pile construction in the public sector is in full swing, private pile sharing has gradually become a hot spot in the charging market. Since 2014, a number of pile companies have begun the deployment of private pile sharing, with the increasing number of private pile construction in recent years, more and more car owners are joining this sharing plan.
Tong Zongqi said that by the end of 2021, the number of shared private piles has been counted 72395, of which 70992 are star charging, accounting for 98.1%. He revealed that from the perspective of the parts of the private pile, the approximate part rate of the charging pile is between 60% and 70%.
According to the data, the data sales of new energy vehicles in 2021 are 3.521 million units. Tong Zongqi said that compared with the sales of new energy vehicles, charging infrastructure and new energy vehicles have shown an explosive growth momentum. The incremental ratio of piles and vehicles is 1:3.7, which can basically meet the rapid development of new energy vehicles.
From enterprises to localities, data from the Charging Infrastructure Alliance shows that in Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Beijing, Zhejiang, Shandong, Hubei, Anhui, Henan, fujian, the top 10 regions, the construction of public charging infrastructure accounted for 71.7%.
Among them, the national charging power is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Beijing and other provinces and cities, the electricity flow is mainly based on buses and passenger cars, and other types of vehicles such as sanitation logistics vehicles and taxis account for a relatively small proportion.
The construction of charging piles is still vigorously promoted, but at the consumer level, there are many car owners who still do not perceive the increase in the number of charging piles. The installation and use of charging piles is still a mountain in front of electric vehicle owners, and the reasons for this are complex.
#02
Four sets of plans, there is always a way to deal with anxiety
By the end of 2021, the Charging Infrastructure Alliance had sampled 381,000 pieces of data on the reasons for "not building charging facilities with the car", of which the three factors of "the user built the pile by himself", "there is no fixed parking space in the place of residence", and "the property of the place of residence did not cooperate" were the main reasons for not building charging facilities with the car.
Among these three factors, the reason of "the residence property does not cooperate" has poked at the pain points of many users. In some of the original communities, the installation of private charging piles requires dealing with various departments, including the property, and the approval process is complicated.
On May 20, 2021, the Energy Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Implementation Opinions on Charging and Replacing Infrastructure", which discussed the problem of charging in residential areas as the first chapter, which shows that the relevant government departments will focus on solving the problem of charging in residential areas next.
"According to the analysis of the Charging Alliance, there are currently four ways to solve the problem of charging in residential areas." Tong Zongqi said.
First of all, in the latest "Implementation Opinions", the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development requires new residential areas to "100% reserve charging interfaces" and needs to build a certain proportion of charging piles. This part of the charging pile needs to be built and managed by real estate enterprises or properties in the construction of houses.
"Private pile sharing is also an increasingly popular practice at present." Tong Zongqi said that many of the newly released new energy vehicle "car parts piles" are also smart piles, which can be logged on to the Charging Alliance platform for monitoring. Willing car owners can share their own private piles to provide charging services for other car owners in the community who have not installed charging piles.
"The mileage of new energy vehicles is mainly 500 kilometers, and at present, more than 80% of car owners are still mainly based on urban traffic, for our car owners, charging once a week is enough, and other times can be released to other car owners for charging." Tong Zongqi explained that this will effectively revitalize the idle time of private piles, improve the efficiency of use, and achieve more in one fell swoop.
The third way is "public charging". Tong Zongqi said that at present, some operators will build unified charging stations in the middle of several communities to solve the charging problem of several communities. This operating idea is more similar to a gas station.
The fourth way is about "storage-charge piles". As the name suggests, this charging pile comes with its own battery, which can be charged or stored. "There are two or four battery packs in the charging pile, each about 40 kWh of electricity, which will output nearly 200 kWh of electricity in total." Introduction of Tong Zongqi.
Residents' electricity consumption is only part of the daily car scene, and during the holidays, many car owners will drive electric vehicles to travel. At this time, the public charging pile on the highway has become a "hot" charging resource.
On October 1, 2021, a new energy vehicle owner returning to Hunan from Shenzhen spent more than 5 hours charging his car in the service area of leiyang on the expressway, of which 4 hours were queued alone. During the queue, the owner did not dare to drink water and did not dare to go to the toilet. What was originally more than 8 hours of travel ended up taking 16 hours.
"To solve the problem of charging on holidays on the highway, it is not to build more charging piles, but to find ways to improve the charging service capacity on the highway." Tong Zongqi recounted his understanding of the issue.
#03
Next stop, substation
At present, charging piles are an important means of power replenishment for electric vehicles. At the same time, power exchange schemes are also rapidly popularizing. Compared with charging pile charging, power exchange charging is fast and low cost. In the popularization of the power exchange model, car companies and power exchange operators are the main driving force.
According to alliance data, the number of substations on the mainland in 2021 is 1298. Among them, Beijing has the largest number of substations, reaching 255. The second-largest province is Guangdong Province, with a total of 178 substations.
Top 10 of power exchange provinces
With the country's vigorous promotion of the power exchange model, as well as the recognition of the main engine factory and battery manufacturers for the power exchange, the number of power station replacement stations is expected to usher in a further outbreak in 2022, which may be the next direction to solve the charging anxiety.
On January 21, 2022, with the launch and operation of the Hangzhou IKEA Weilai Substation, the total number of WEIlai substations nationwide reached 800, ranking first in the number of far ahead. Aodong New Energy, an operator specializing in power replacement, has 402 substations.
On January 18, CATL released the power exchange brand "EVOGO", which will adopt a combination of power exchange methods, which can adapt to the models developed by the power exchange platform that are 80% of the world's 80% that have been listed and will be listed in the next three years.
Prior to this, CATL participated in the investment of Wuhan Weineng Battery Asset Co., Ltd. and signed a cooperation agreement with the Guizhou Provincial Government at the end of last year to build a power exchange network, which shows that the battery giant has continuous thinking about the power exchange model. In addition to the battery giant, Geely also announced that it will take Chongqing as the fulcrum and rely on its travel platform to explore the field of power exchange.
Tong Zongqi said that the continuous promotion of the power exchange mode will derive the demand for more application scenarios. "Car owners can use the time of charging and changing to find a place to work or play, which will change the way some people work and live."
Looking ahead to 2022, the Charging Alliance has also made a vision. It is estimated that in 2022, 1.9 million new charging piles will be added to the vehicle, and the number of charging piles equipped with the vehicle will reach 3.37 million.
2022 Charging Infrastructure Forecast
In the public charging pile part, the alliance expects to add 543,000 units in 2022, including 244,000 public AC charging piles and 299,000 public DC charging piles; the number of public charging piles will reach 1.69 million, of which 922,000 are public AC charging piles and 768,000 are public DC charging piles. In addition, the alliance also expects to add 25,000 new public charging stations in 2022, and the number of public charging stations will reach 100,000.
Looking to the farther future, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments have made plans.
In the "Implementation Opinions on Further Improving the Service Guarantee Capacity of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure" issued on January 10, 2022, the relevant departments proposed that by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", a moderately advanced, balanced layout, intelligent and efficient charging infrastructure system will be formed, which can meet the charging needs of more than 20 million electric vehicles.
With the advancement of a series of initiatives, "charging anxiety" may be together with "battery life anxiety", and the charging infrastructure and more and more advanced charging technology that are constantly popularized will be swept into the garbage heap of history. There may be pain before the industrial change, but the dawn of new energy owners who want to achieve "charging freedom" has begun to appear.
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