Author | Zhou Qian
Editor | Peng Xiaoqiu
36氪 was informed that recently, the charging pile solution provider “Eipler’s” (hereinafter referred to as “EN+Technology”) completed a Series C financing of more than 10 million US dollars. The investor is its strategic partner Eaton (Eaton). This financing The funds will be used for R&D investment, improving production and manufacturing capabilities and expanding global layout.
“EN+Technology” was established in 2015, focusing on the development of charging pile equipment, technology and operation platform. At present, it has achieved full product matrix coverage of AC piles, DC piles, charging modules and operating platform systems, and related products meet the national standard and European standard certification. Requirements, American Standard, Japanese Standard and other products are also under development and certification. Since entering the overseas market for 6 years, the company’s products have been exported to more than 40 countries and regions, especially the business share of the European market has reached 48%.
Overseas Application Scenario Cases
In the early days of its establishment, the company’s CEO Jin Tao and the founding team paid attention to the communication piles in the charging pile market at that time, which were complicated in design, large in size and high in cost, that is, bulky and inconvenient, and still remained in the design perspective of traditional industrial products. The end users of charging piles are consumers, which play the role of electric energy conversion. Therefore, such purpose products should be improved in the direction of household appliances and 3C electronics.
Therefore, the first-generation charging pile developed and produced by “EN+Technology” took the lead in product design based on the route of electronic circuits, and adopted the idea of high integration to save many unnecessary industrial electronic components, which not only realized the compact and lightweight appearance, but also Internal costs also fell to less than half of the average market price at the time.
On this basis, “EN+Technology” continues to explore various sinking application scenarios of the exchange pile. In addition to the portable charging box that can be carried with the car, it has also developed a variety of authentication methods such as swiping cards, scanning codes, and Bluetooth locks. Household AC charging pile products. For the centralized operation of charging stations and real estate supporting areas, EN+ has launched a series of operation exchange piles to meet the needs of different customer groups through a flexible combination of product configurations. EN+ also combines offline advertising and charging business to launch advertising pile products that are widely used in shopping malls, tourist attractions, service areas and other high-traffic scenarios.
Caro Series Home AC Pile
In terms of DC piles, the products of “EN+Technology” cover super charging piles ranging from 20kW to 360kW and even 480kW. The charging piles are also available in wall-mounted, mobile, integrated, integrated and split types to meet the needs of customers in different The charging requirement in the scenario.
In addition, “EN+Technology” also insists on self-developed charging modules, hoping to improve the experience of fast charging of electric vehicles, applying cutting-edge power electronics technology (VIENNA+LLC), under the premise of safety and reliability, to effectively achieve high charging efficiency, the highest efficiency can be It reaches 96.5%, and the average full load rate is 95%. It is suitable for charging/exchanging places of various new energy electric vehicles.
In response to the four major problems in the current electric vehicle charging field: low return on investment, limited power capacity, complex pile coordination, and high operating costs, the charging operation management system independently developed by “EN+Technology” adopts the centralized deployment of the cloud platform to effectively connect charging operators. It has daily management functions such as equipment monitoring, operation and maintenance management, remote upgrade, and fund settlement, as well as operation and management functions such as data aggregation, index accounting and operation optimization.
At present, for the pain point of the high vacancy rate of charging piles, “EN+ Technology” forms an overall solution by matching intelligent ground locks and cameras to avoid the space occupancy of oil trucks parked in the charging space, effectively improving the efficiency of charging parking spaces, shortening the The return on investment period for the station operator.
At present, “EN+ Technology” has formed special solutions for various models and charging scenarios such as private cars and taxis by configuring different types of charging piles. By the end of last year, “EN+ Technology” had completed the installation of 576 centralized charging stations and 2,694 distributed charging stations in China; 106 centralized charging stations and 2,718 decentralized charging stations had been installed abroad.
In terms of team, CEO Jin Tao graduated from South China University of Technology. He has seven years of practical experience in supply chain management of Eaton, and has been deeply involved in market and sales services for 13 years; Dai Guofeng was the founder of Megavolt Esso and served as the technical director of SMA China. Has nearly 20 patents in the field of string inverters. The company’s founding team members are all from international leading companies in the electrical and photovoltaic fields.
investment point of view
Liu Hui, President of Eaton Electric Asia Pacific, said: “This strategic investment is highly compatible with Eaton’s long-term strategy in the field of energy transformation. The business growth opportunities brought about by the strategic relationship between the two parties are exciting.”
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