Robots solve the "difficult charging" dilemma in the new energy vehicle industry

As the market share of new energy electric vehicles continues to increase, the problem of "difficult charging" has gradually surfaced. In 2022, my country's new energy vehicles continued to grow explosively, with production and sales reaching 7.058 million and 6.887 million respectively, up 96.9% and 93.4% year-on-year respectively, and a market share of 25.6%.

During the Spring Festival this year, the number of trips increased significantly, and many new energy vehicle owners chose to drive back home. According to Baidu Maps data, during the Spring Festival, Baidu Maps new energy vehicle users searched for charging piles an average of 500,000 times a day, and the daily peak navigation mileage exceeded 100 million kilometers, an increase of more than 90% year-on-year. The demand for charging and energy replenishment was strong, and queuing for charging became the norm.

Against this backdrop, the fully electric shared electric vehicle charging robot was put into operation. At present, in a residential area in Suzhou, a 60-meter-long silver-white rail runs through 44 parking spaces in the area in series. An exquisite robot travels on the rail, and a power socket has been installed above each parking space. The owner only needs to log in to the WeChat applet, fill in the parking space number, and then issue a charging command to the track robot. The robot that receives the command grabs an idle charging gun, moves to the back of the electric car, and automatically puts down the charging gun. The owner can plug in the charging gun to charge the electric car.

This system is mainly used to solve the current problem of difficulty in charging. The system turns the charging facilities from the ground to the top of the head, deploys tracks on the top of the garage, and consists of three parts: a power socket, a charging gun and a mobile robot. Through robot control technology, Internet of Things technology and scheduling algorithms, the charging gun is precisely controlled to move to the designated parking space, assisting car owners to charge quickly, realizing the transformation from "car looking for charging piles" to "charging piles looking for car", and greatly improving the utilization efficiency of charging piles.

This innovative model is suitable for the current domestic electric vehicle market environment. It eliminates the registration link for residents and realizes the automated sharing of parking spaces and charging piles. It can solve the problems of tight power capacity, difficult power access, low utilization of charging piles and parking management in residential areas. In addition to bringing convenience to car owners, the "shared" charging mode of the system also saves social resources. According to statistics, a fire partition in the underground garage of a community only needs to be equipped with one robot to meet the charging needs of all parking spaces in the area. Under the same ratio of cars to charging piles, the charging service range of all-electric shared cars is wider. When the number of electric vehicles in the area changes, we can also flexibly increase or decrease according to the vehicle situation to meet the charging needs and reduce the investment cost of charging facilities.

Compared with the traditional charging pile construction mode, this system can realize modular prefabrication of tracks, charging piles and robots, simplifying the construction process. The entire system is managed by the operator or property management, making the charging process safer and more reliable.