On March 30, Japanese oiler ENEOS Holding Company announced that it has jointly established a "Cachaco" startup with four major automakers, including Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki, whose main business is to launch the exchange business of "Honda Mobile Power Pack e: "Honda Mobile Power Pack e:" and is expected to start providing services in Tokyo and other major cities by the fall of this year.
Gachaco's main business is to provide battery sharing services with common specifications for electric locomotives and to develop infrastructure for shared services. The first step is to install Honda Mobile Power Pack Exchanger e: shared battery swap stations in front of train stations in major cities with hotspots such as ENEOS service stations to provide convenient power exchange services for electric locomotives.
In the future, Gachaco will also work to promote ordinary specifications of batteries, not only for electric locomotives, but also for other products; For example, commercial facilities (street lights or signals?) ) and household electricity storage.
As for the consumable battery issue of shared services that environmentalists are concerned about, Gachaco will use the BaaS (Battery as a Service) platform to recycle, of course, including the secondary and tertiary use of other batteries, which can be said to be a pre-planning for the subsequent use of energy batteries.
And why honda-made Honda Mobile Power Pack e: Because among the four major automakers, Honda has long invested in the development of electric vehicles, and last year launched the Gyro E model for commercial users, and the development of replacement batteries is also continuing. The idea of the Power Replacement Alliance did not take shape today, as Honda signed an agreement with the other three major automakers to jointly develop it two years ago.
However, the operation of Cachaco, which is dominated by oil merchant ENEOS today, is worth playing, but perhaps in another way, it is not a bad thing that oil merchants will focus on the development of electric energy or new energy in the future, after all, for them, electric energy is also a kind of energy.