On March 5, according to CCTV reports, China's inaugural smart electric vehicle charging and swapping demonstration zone was completed on March 4. This initiative spans across three cities in Jiangsu province, namely Suzhou, Wuxi, and Changzhou. The project includes the construction of 21 new charging and swapping stations and nearly 300 charging piles.
Users can conveniently utilize a mobile app to input information such as their destination, vehicle range, and battery capacity. This enables them to identify the most cost-effective and time-efficient charging options available.
According to the introduction, this pilot zone is capable of utilizing intelligent algorithms to comprehensively analyze real-time data on charging station availability, charging costs, and queue waiting times. Subsequently, it offers vehicle owners the best charging solutions. This initiative facilitates an efficient interaction between electric vehicles, charging stations, and the urban power grid, enhancing the usage efficiency of charging piles. As a result, it significantly reduces the average monthly waiting time for charging by nearly 50% for vehicle owners within the pilot zone.
Ruan Wenjun, the Director of the Marketing Department's Market Division at State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd., highlighted that the main advantage of this smart guidance system over traditional charging methods is its ability to proactively push the optimal charging plan to car owners based on their driving habits, the queue at charging stations, and discounts on charging services. This innovation eliminates the cumbersome process of searching for charging piles and routes, thereby saving time and costs associated with charging.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Public Security: By the end of 2023, the number of new energy vehicles in China exceeded 20 million, with new registrations of new energy vehicles in 2023 increasing by 38.76% compared to the previous year. Based on this growth rate, it is estimated that there will be nearly 35 million new energy vehicles by the end of 2025.
As reported by IT Home, Cui Dongshu, the secretary-general of the China Passenger Car Association, stated that China has built the world's largest, most extensive, and most diverse charging infrastructure network. In 2023, China retailed 5.15 million pure electric passenger vehicles, added 930,000 public charging piles, and 2.46 million private charging piles. Currently, using a calculation of 1 public pile equals 3 private piles, China's pure electric vehicle to charging pile ratio in the incremental market of 2023 has reached 1:1, far exceeding that of other countries by several times.
