Many EV users do not have their own private charging piles. Charging experience is awful for them when using public piles.
Sharge is a private charging pile sharing platform for EV users' convenient and economic charge.
Sharge is based in China. The large-scale residential units in Chinese cities have huge concentrated parking lots, facilitating convenient private charging pile sharing. Also, residential electricity is much cheaper than commercial one, which is an important opportunity.
Customers can find available piles easily in specific place and time. Estimated price, ratings & reviews, photos, and many other datils are provided before making reservations.
Upcoming and finished reservations can be seen both in list and calendar views. Customers can start their charge from them easily, spend time in the amenities nearby and got notified when finishing.
Expected monthly earning is given after a very short evaluation to motivate private pile owners to join. Last-mile way finding is improved by the platform and hosts to give you the step-by-step navigation.
After listing your pile, a pile page is added to the reservation section. It can help managing the available time and customers' reservations easily, no conflicts with the functions as a customer.
By end of 2021, there are 6.4million EV in China national wide, which takes 2.1% of total car numbers.
Compared with 2020, the EV growth in 2021 increased 59.25%.
By 2021, there is a shortfall of 2.53 million private charging piles, accounting for 39.53% of total EV users.
The lack of their own parking spaces, or the inability to install qualified wiring in their parking spaces, prevents a large proportion of EV users from owning private charging piles.
Due to work, life and other reasons. People in big cities are uncertain and mobile. Most of them line in rent apartments. Therefore, they are reluctant to invest in charging piles for long-term use.
Economical vehicles under ￥150K($23K) takes a large percent of EV sales in China. Charging pile installation cost itself is also an important reason to hinder many users.
Industrial and commercial electricity price is 1.25-1.45 times higher than residential one. Including land rent, construction costs, and so on, public charging fee is about three times higher than private ones.
The charging pile I used is ￥1.49/kW·h, which is equivalent to 4.9L/100km fuel consumption for gasoline vehicles. Compared with hybrid models, there is no great advantage.
—— Mr. Jiang
Driving to public piles and charging takes more time and steps than on private ones. What’s more, you need to be vary careful with the finishing time since taking the space over time after finishing brings a penalty.
The nearest Tesla super charging piles are half an hour away from me. The charging power of the other piles closer is not ideal.
—— Ms. Ning
There was once I engrossed in chatting with a friend and forgot about my charging, which brought me a lot of fines.
—— Mr. Jiang
Due to the uneven frequency of use, charging stations can hardly fully meet the charging demand during peak hours, which will lead to several hours waiting in the queue. In addition, charging piles are still unavailable or not maintained well in many areas.
Every Friday there's a long line at the charging piles under my office building.
—— Mrs. Zhu
Once I had to drive on a business trip the next day and my car needed charging. But all the communal public piles in my community are occupied. I had to go downstairs again late at night to find an available one.
—— Mr. Jiang
Due to the limitations of existing satellite navigation system technology, accurate navigation within the residential area, especially in underground parking lots, is almost impossible.
Many existing public charging piles are not well maintained now. Driving to a charging pile and then finding it doesn't work leaves consumers frustrated and angry.
Estimate charging time cannot be very accurate. However, taking the space after finish will bring fines, much more expensive than charging fee.
Uploading information and getting verified is a cumbersome process. Many hosts are therefore reluctant to try.
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