Car charging station is facing the task of becoming a decoration

Recently, a piece of news excited the comrades of the Nanjing Electric Power Company's electric vehicle project team. According to the plan, before the 2014 Youth Olympic Games, the proportion of green buses in Nanjing will reach 50%. This plan will greatly increase the number of electric cars in Nanjing and will hopefully solve the “chicken, egg, or anybody” problem encountered in the construction of electric vehicle charging stations.

"Thunder and rain is small," but there is no car

Since the completion of the first electric vehicle charging station in Nanjing in 2006, the construction of charging stations in the province's first electric vehicle charging station in Nanjing was initiated. The targets have been established in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”: Nanjing will build 30 charging stations in Suzhou. There are 30 seats, 30 seats in Yangzhou, 29 seats in Xuzhou, and 28 seats in Changzhou. However, compared with the enthusiasm for construction planning, the actual pace of charge station construction has lagged behind. Last year, our province planned to build 18 electric vehicle charging stations, but only 10 were built; Nanjing plans to build 5, but now the third seat has not yet seen movement.

Charging station construction "thunder and rain is small," the reason is that there is no station. On August 29th, the reporter went to the city's first large-scale electric vehicle charging station in the Yangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone and saw only three large-scale DC chargers, four medium-sized DC chargers, and ten AC charging piles on site. Far from the traditional gas station that kind of car to the scene. The charging station has invested 15 million yuan. It was officially completed in April last year and can provide fast and slow charging for 17 vehicles at the same time. However, currently only 6 new energy buses in Yangzhou can use the charging equipment here.

The “unprecedented” in the car charging station is exactly what the local people are facing. The Nanjing Fuzimiao Charging Station, which covers an area of ​​400 square meters, is only used for charging electric sightseeing cars and electric patrol cars in the scenic area; the customers of the Maigaoqiao Charging Station only have three “tour 1” buses; Since the completion of the city charging station in March this year, there has not been a single consumer.

The battery is too expensive to charge and the "standard" is not connected

Electric cars have many advantages such as energy saving, low noise, and environmental protection, but it is still difficult to get into daily life. “To buy an ordinary air-conditioned bus, as long as more than 400,000 yuan, a set of batteries for electric vehicles is 500,000.” Assistant to Nanjing Argos Bus Co., Ltd. said that last year began to "travel 1" road to enable pure electric buses, each The price is as high as 1.6 million yuan, and the battery has a charge cycle, and the cycle must be replaced. When the first charging station in Yangzhou was completed, three pure electric buses were once involved in the trial operation, but they have all been shut down. Because the bus runs 250 kilometers a day, a pure electric bus can only travel about 80 kilometers at a time, which is far from meeting operational requirements. The depressing work of the staff of the Maigaoqiao charging station is that since the national interface standard for the charging station has not yet been introduced, electric vehicles must be inserted into charging piles with a device similar to the universal interface of the mobile phone to be “matched to”. Hours, make the charging station a few "parking."

“New energy vehicles are definitely the direction of development, but in the present, it is difficult to answer the question whether it is first establishing a station or developing a vehicle first. The relevant cities can only build charging stations gradually and orderly, and then promote the maintenance of electric vehicles. The increase in volume, said the head of a joint-venture vehicle company in a province that is developing new energy vehicles.

Good interaction of the station car can drive out of the cycle

In fact, the electric vehicle industry has already formed a “strange circle”—the number of electric vehicles has slowed down the speed of building the station; the site layout is not perfect, which has hindered the popularization of electric vehicles. According to experts from the provincial power company, the healthy growth of electric vehicles and charging stations is a relatively slow and interactive process unless the domestic and foreign automotive industries make breakthroughs in technology or introduce major support policies.

The Youth Olympic Games is obviously an opportunity for a “major support policy”. In connection with the Youth Olympic Games program, the Nanjing Transportation Administration Bureau has formulated a bus upgrade plan. In the next five years, 60% of the city’s more than 5,000 buses will use clean energy, and a considerable part of them will be converted into electric vehicles. The Hexi area will To achieve full coverage of electric vehicles.

Provincial Power Corporation News Center Zhou Zhuren believes that this plan will at least give birth to more than 1,000 electric vehicles in Nanjing, and its scale effect will greatly promote the construction of charging stations. The charging stations will form a huge market demand from the point of distribution to the contiguous network, which will also force the electric vehicle industry to accelerate the breakthrough of technical bottlenecks, thus forming a virtuous cycle of growth in the interaction between stations and vehicles, so that these "sleeping charging stations" will no longer be paralyzed. For display, it really exerts its due value.