The benefits exclusively for new energy vehicle owners in 10 provinces and cities including Beijing and Guangdong are here!

The UK will once again bring forward its plan to ban the sale of fuel vehicles. According to foreign media reports, British Prime Minister Johnson may soon announce that the UK will ban the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2030. In February this year, Johnson had brought forward the ban plan from 2040 to 2035.

On the other side of the ban on the sale of fuel vehicles in various countries, new energy vehicles are booming - Tesla's market value exceeds Toyota, and NIO's market value exceeds Ford.

As an important infrastructure for new energy vehicles, the construction of charging piles has also seen a boom in recent years.

On November 11, the China Charging Alliance released the latest charging pile operation data. The data showed that as of October 2020, the cumulative number of public and private charging piles nationwide was 1.498 million, an increase of 30.9% year-on-year. Among them, the total number of public charging piles was 667,000, an increase of 40% year-on-year.

Among all the public charging piles currently in use, Shanghai ranks first in the country with more than 73,500, followed by Guangdong, Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Anhui, Hebei, Hubei and Tianjin. The public charging infrastructure built by the above TOP10 provinces and cities accounts for 72.2%.

It should be noted that although my country ranks first in the world in the number of charging piles and the construction of charging piles is in full swing in various provinces, the low utilization rate of charging piles is still a common problem faced by the industry.

Take Shanghai as an example, the total number of new energy vehicles has exceeded 300,000, including more than 4,000 new energy taxis. However, there are prominent problems such as the lack of information connection of public charging piles and the occupation of fuel vehicles. The average utilization rate of public charging piles is only 1.4%. The average utilization rate of public charging piles in the country is only about 4%.

Since 2020, giants have accelerated their entry into the charging pile industry.

On March 31, Ant Financial's wholly-owned subsidiary invested in Jiandan Chong and became the second largest shareholder with a 33.33% stake; on April 23, Huawei announced its new generation of DC charging module Hi Charger, and cooperated with Teld to promote the construction of charging pile networking and the development of smart charging business; on July 10, travel energy trading platform and supply chain service provider Enerchain obtained 900 million yuan in financing - its subsidiary Enerchain Fast Electric has covered 400,000 charging piles, and through in-depth operations, it has helped the cooperative charging piles to improve their efficiency by more than 3 times.

Analysts believe that with various capitals and Internet giants entering the market, the second half of the competition for charging piles will focus on improving efficiency.