17 companies can build the "largest car network", a list of major charging operators

New energy vehicles are the general trend, but the lag in infrastructure such as charging piles has restricted the development of electric vehicles. There are problems such as "cannot find a charging pile" and "cannot charge" after buying a car, so the interconnection of charging piles on the platform has become a unanimous call in the industry.

On the 21st, the State Grid Corporation of China's Internet of Vehicles platform has achieved interconnection with 17 charging operators including Putian New Energy, Teladian, and Xingxing Charging, with a total of more than 167,000 charging piles connected and a daily charging capacity of more than 1 million kWh. This means that China has built the world's most extensive, most connected devices, and most technologically advanced smart Internet of Vehicles.

State Grid Corporation of China Smart Internet of Vehicles Platform

Since the State Grid opened the electric vehicle charging and swapping market, facing the huge market "cake", many private capitals have begun to explore this field. The participants are far more than the 17 companies cooperating with it. Now we have sorted out the 10 major domestic charging operators (in no particular order).

State Grid Corporation of China was established at the end of 2002. It is a central enterprise directly under the Central Government, with business scope covering 26 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country. It began to enter the field of electric vehicle charging facilities in 2006. NARI and XJ Electric are affiliated to State Grid, both of which are well-known brands in the electrical industry and top ten brands of charging piles.

As of now, a total of nearly 5,526 electric vehicle charging and swapping stations and 44,000 charging piles have been built, which can meet the charging and swapping needs of 800,000 electric vehicles.

Since the opening of the charging and swapping facilities market, the State Grid Corporation has shifted its focus to the highway fast charging network, which has large investment demand, slow recovery and urgent development tasks. It has built 1,240 charging stations, covering 16,000 kilometers of highways and 121 cities. In 2017, a "nine vertical, nine horizontal and two ring" highway fast charging network will be built. Charging facilities will be expanded from cities to inter-city areas, enabling electric vehicles to travel across provinces.

State Grid plans to build 10,000 public fast-charging stations and 120,000 charging piles across the country by 2020, fully covering the highway fast-charging network in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei-Shandong, all cities in the Yangtze River Delta and major cities in other regions, covering a total of 202 cities and 36,000 kilometers of highways.

Putian New Energy is a subsidiary of China Putian Group, a central enterprise mainly engaged in the construction, operation and service of new energy vehicle charging networks.

Putian New Energy is one of the earliest companies in my country to provide charging operation and maintenance services. As early as 2011, Putian New Energy successfully built and operated the world's largest new energy vehicle charging and swapping intelligent network consisting of 57 charging stations in Shenzhen.

Last year, Putian New Energy's charging station construction layout was centered on Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and began to advance to other developed cities, and also expanded to more second- and third-tier cities. Compared with the more radical State Grid, Putian New Energy is taking steady steps. Originally, Putian New Energy focused on cooperating with the government and used the government as a platform to carry out charging pile construction. But since last year, Putian New Energy has also included public areas such as residential areas, business districts, and tourist attractions in the scope of charging station construction, and has developed car companies such as BMW and BYD as its second-tier customers.

Teladian is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trede, mainly engaged in the construction and operation of new energy vehicle charging networks and value-added services on the Internet.

Teladian pioneered the intelligent charging system for electric vehicles, and led the development of charging technology in the world with the characteristics of "no pile charging, no electric plug, group management and control, modular structure, active protection, and flexible charging". Through the charging system ecological company that sells electricity through a large system, it creates a new energy Internet that integrates the charging network, the Internet of Vehicles, and the Internet.

Through cooperation with city governments and well-known local companies, Teladian has established joint ventures or wholly-owned subsidiaries in 66 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, etc., and has comprehensively invested in the construction of urban charging facility networks. It has projects in 245 cities and has invested in the construction of more than 170,000 charging terminals.

Xingxing Charging is an intelligent operation platform for new energy charging piles jointly invested by Jiangsu's largest automobile dealer group, Wanbang Auto, and Beijing's largest state-owned enterprise, BAIC Group.

The Xingxing Charging Platform is an Internet platform that integrates the national small and medium-sized charging pile operators to provide them with unified payment, transaction management, operation and maintenance, value-added services, etc. It is based on the Internet of Things technology and the Internet of Vehicles technology and is widely used in the field of smart charging network services for new energy vehicles. It provides end users with quick search, online reservation, status query, Internet of Vehicles and other services, and has the characteristics of a B2B2C Internet.

The backend platform of XingXing Charging integrates five functions: city monitoring platform, charging management platform, XingYu community platform, mall transaction platform and open cooperation platform. In particular, the open cooperation platform is the only charging facility platform in China that can open control protocols.

Currently, Star Charging has invested over RMB 1 billion to build 32,000 charging piles in 34 cities across the country. There are 400,000 electric car owners in the country who are users of the Star Charging App, with more than 30,000 active users per day. Its ultimate goal is to achieve the integration of the Internet of Things, the Internet, the Internet of Vehicles and the smart grid.

Huashang Sanyou was established in 2010 in response to the national promotion of new energy vehicles. It is a high-tech enterprise integrating new energy vehicle application system solution design, charging and swapping product research and development and manufacturing, marketing, engineering implementation, site operation and maintenance and after-sales service. It is a second-level industrial unit of Beijing Electric Power Company.

In terms of business, Huashang Sanyou insists on giving priority to the development of private charging, and has made many attempts around issues such as how to get the product into households and how to make private travel more convenient.

At present, Huashang Sanyou has developed the Youyi Charge APP, which collects the current data of private charging piles in Beijing. Car owners share their parking spaces and charging piles on the platform, and publish idle information on Youyi Charge. Car owners in need will make reservations on it. After the two parties reach an agreement, the user arrives at the site and scans the QR code with Youyi Charge, and the charging pile will automatically charge. In this way, relying on the cloud platform and the Internet, Youyi Charge not only realizes sharing, but also has the function of value-added.

Fudian Technology is a subsidiary of Fudian Group, specializing in the manufacture of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, as well as solar energy and energy storage facilities and operating charging networks.

Fudian Technology mainly builds charging piles in "CBD business districts, large shopping malls and other places with high user arrival rates". It is an operator that builds its own charging parking spaces. It mainly deploys charging station outlets in Beijing, and its APP platform is called Xiaoyi Charging.

The Xiaoyi Charging Station located in China World Trade Center is currently the largest flagship station in China, with nearly 100 charging stations available for electric car owners. The total number of charging stations in the entire station can reach up to 1,000 times per day. Its China World Trade Center ground-based smart photovoltaic charging station is the first photovoltaic charging station in China, with power generation + energy storage functions, and its daily self-generated electricity can meet the charging needs of 7 new energy vehicles.

In addition to the above-ground photovoltaic charging station, Fudian has also built a large centralized charging service area in the underground parking lot of the office building. The upgraded station can form a new energy commercial complex integrating charging services, entertainment, leisure and other business forms, and can provide centralized services for charging users within a 5-kilometer coverage area.

Yunshan Wisdom was established by Shanshan Co., Ltd. Shanshan Co., Ltd. is the only supplier of lithium battery positive electrode materials, negative electrode materials, electrolytes, and separators in China, and its market share and sales of positive electrode, negative electrode and electrolyte are among the top three companies in China. In 2015, Shanshan led the investment to establish Yunshan Wisdom New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., focusing on the comprehensive operation of new energy vehicles and charging infrastructure.

Yunshan Wisdom has a strong momentum in the construction of charging piles. So far, the charging network invested and built by Yunshan Wisdom has entered dozens of cities across the country, with a total of more than 3,000 charging piles built and put into operation, with a total power of more than 10,000 kilowatts.

By 2020, Yunshan Smart will have built 2,000 city-level public charging stations and 200,000 public charging piles, thus forming a nationwide charging infrastructure network, which will become the physical offline support for future online services and thereby gain more than 10 million online members.

Yilian is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zhuhai Titan Power Electronics Group Co., Ltd. Titan started out as a manufacturer of charging equipment, and the first fast charging pile was invented by it in 2005. In order to transform into a more profitable service-oriented enterprise, at the end of 2014, Titan proposed a two-wheel strategy of equipment production and operation services, and established Yilian New Energy, which focuses on charging pile operation and maintenance services, in the same year, gradually transforming from a single equipment supplier to a comprehensive charging facility service provider.

In addition to the foundation and industry status, Yilian has also found a precise entry point with commercial bus electric vehicles as the main . The charging pile field can be further divided into personal rides, buses and rental sectors. From the development trend, charging stations in the community property model require a longer-term budget, and at least the use of electric vehicles needs to reach a certain scale before they can start to make a profit. At present, the volume of commercial bus electric vehicles is the mainstream, and it is also the field most likely to generate profit returns in the short and medium term.

At present, Yilian 's charging network operation projects have been implemented in Beijing, Baoding, Zhangjiakou, Qingdao, Shaoguan, Zhuhai and other cities.

Wanma New Energy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wanma Group. It was established in 2010 and is one of the earliest strategic emerging enterprises in China that specializes in the research and development, manufacturing, and construction and operation services of electric vehicle charging equipment.

In 2014, Wanma established AiChong.com and officially entered the field of charging network construction and operation. Wanma New Energy provides a variety of charging piles, and AiChong.com provides online charging pile maps and app applications, connecting online needs with offline actual charging piles through the Internet.

In terms of layout, Wanma focuses on building centralized fast-charging stations and constructing a city fast-charging network layer by layer. Taking Hangzhou, which was deployed in the early stage, as an example, Wanma New Energy has built fast-charging stations along the main traffic arteries in the four directions of the east, west, south and north of the main urban area and the city center, forming a fast-charging network with a charging radius of five kilometers. At the same time, fast-charging stations are concentrated in areas with high population density such as transportation hubs, shopping malls, and hotels, and are equipped with more than 10 45kW-60kW DC charging piles to facilitate charging for electric car owners.

In addition, Wanma New Energy has also taken the initiative to deploy inter-city fast charging lines, and gradually developed into a regional fast charging network through urban fast charging lines. For example, Wanma New Energy has invested in and built 57 fast charging stations in Shenzhen, and relying on fast charging lines in cities such as Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, and Zhuhai, it has formed a fast charging network of 200 stations in South China.

Zhida Technology was founded in 2010 and is a technology startup company mainly composed of automotive and IT people. Zhida Technology's mission is to charge and promote green travel. In the past five years, Zhida Technology has helped more than 50,000 users to use new energy vehicles first through the research and development and manufacturing of smart charging products, combined with the country's largest charging pile landing service platform in more than 100 cities - "Pile to Home", as well as charging sharing and new energy vehicle test rides and other model innovations.

In July, Zhida also launched a new smart charging product "Watcher", which not only has a more fashionable and technological appearance, but also adds new functions such as parking space monitoring and Bluetooth ground locks. It not only has the basic networking functions of traditional smart charging piles, but can also interact with mobile phones and people.

Conclusion

Compared with users who bought cars but "cannot charge", the seemingly prosperous charging operators may feel more wronged. They have invested a lot of financial and material resources, but most of them are still losing money. The interconnection of the State Grid's Internet of Vehicles platform may improve the industry's predicament.

An industry insider said, "No country in the world has connected the Internet of Vehicles and the Internet of Charging Piles like our country has. Once the interconnection between vehicles and charging piles is completed, the next energy data entrance for charging piles will be formed, so that many charging pile companies will be able to make profits this year."

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