The future of Automatic EV Charging Robot

In the time of coronavirus, self-driving technology has shown itsunique advantages. Baidu’s self-driving car Apollo appeared in front of BeijingHaidian Hospital, delivering working meals to frontline medical staff. Theentire process of loading and unloading meals was automatically completedwithout human contact. Similarly, Dongfeng’s self-driving car Sharing-VAN also appearedat the isolation community for rehabilitation personnel, responsible for disinfectionoperations in the neighborhood.

The popularity of self-driving vehicles has continued to increaseworldwide. The automotive giants Volkswagen Group and Ford Motor Company have establisheda strategic alliance to enter the battlefield of self-driving vehicles,electric vehicles and peripheral services; Sony has also released the Vision-Selectric autonomous vehicle; the United States autonomous truck has justcompleted the world's first Long-distance delivery of 4,500 km without any accident;Chinese Didi and Baidu have also begun trial operation of unmanned taxi fleets.Baidu expects estimates that in some cities in 2024, unmanned taxis can be calledat any time; The China Academy of Industry Research predicts that from 2026 to2030, each vehicle should be using a self-driving or assisted driving system,and there will be a real self-driving vehicle boom.

If driving in the future is automatic, will charging need humanintervention? Of course not! Automatic charging will become the natural trend!

Back in 2015, Tesla launched a concept automatic charging robot.Although the snake-shaped robotic arm was likely to cause a little visualanxiety, it did have the function of charging electric vehicles automatically. However,this seems to be just a concept, because no follow-up has been released byTesla ever since.

In the field of automatic charging, the Chinese seem to have moved faster.

ALSONTECH (Alsontech Intelligent Technology), in conjunction with afamous automotive manufacturer, turned intelligent charging robot into realityand launched the world's first robot 3D vision-guided automatic fast chargingsystem in 2018: AT-S1000-06C.

So how does this robot charge your car? Unimaginably easy! After youpark the car at the automatic charging station, ALSONTECH 3D Vision, serving asthe robot's eyes, help the robot accurately locate the charging socket andguide the it to fast charge the car automatically. The whole process only takesa few minutes, so after one car is charged, the next one can follow up and berecharged immediately. This system will work well even for future self-drivingfleets.

Automatic charging robots can not only serve self-driving vehicles, butalso bring greater convenience for charging electric vehicles. Due to policy encouragementsand increasingly stringent emission regulations, both Volkswagen, BMW, and evenToyota, which has held a rather conservative attitude towards EVs, are spendingfortunes on a complete EV platform. Industry experts believes that half of thecost of an EV is spent on the battery, so charging naturally becomes a vital partof the electric EV experience.