5.3.2019. The Volkswagen brand Group Components shows on the Auto-Salon in Geneva, the near-series design study of its flexible fast-charging column. With compact dimensions, it can be positioned where needed or no charging infrastructure is available. Connected to or independent from the mains – for up to four electric vehicles simultaneously in accordance with the principle of a Powerbank loaded, two of them via DC Fast charging. The load column is used as an intermediate storage for green electricity, enables CO2-neutral mobility. To the mains it is connected to the fixed charging point. From 2020 onwards, the series production starts in Germany at the Hannover site.
Powerbank for E-vehicles. The flexible fast-charging station works according to the principle of a Powerbank, how to use millions of people traveling for your Smartphone – just much bigger and more powerful. The load capacity is up to 360 kWh. Thanks to the DC-fast charging technology, with a power of 100 kW, the batteries of the electric vehicles to be recharged in the shortest possible time. Under the energy contents of the in the charging station built-in battery pack is below a defined value, is exchanged for the emptied charging station easy against a loaded. If you, however, to the power grid, to charge the battery pack permanently on its own.
Download at any place. The near-series design study shows the compact dimensions of the charging station. With a footprint of only 120x100cm they can be installed almost anywhere. The allows in the future, the Load of a vehicle to virtually any location – whether in the City, at Festivals, at the stadium or other events or wherever.
Load column as a building block of the energy transition. The Loading of the column is done with renewable electricity – for example by Solar – or wind-energy – the new charging station for the first time, the caching of sustainable electricity. Thus, the electric mobility CO2-neutral. Especially countries, which feed a high proportion of regeneratively produced electricity into the grid, to be able to buffer with the use of the fast charging station is a part of this energy, thus, for the first Time. At the same time, between saving energy to relieve the power grid at peak times.
Second life for electric car batteries. Technically, the load column is based on the battery package of the Modular electrification kit (MDB) of the Volkswagen group and will be designed for its cell modules. Besides the advantage of scalability in different capacity levels of the load allows the column later batteries from E-vehicles a second life. Because: – Free of the battery charge capacity and below a defined reduced residual capacity, falls below, you will be replaced. It is then a detailed analysis, it can be used in a flexible fast-charging column, and so on used used. The sustainable reduction in the use of valuable raw material.
Germany As A Production Location. The first flexible fast-charging stations will be established in the framework of a pilot project, already in the first half of 2019 at the home location of the Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg and support the development of a charging infrastructure in the urban area. From 2020 onwards, the series production of the first fast-charging station at its location in Hanover begins.
For more information about the flexible fast-charging column, see: https://www.volkswagenag.com/flexible-ladesaeule
Volkswagen Powerbank for E-cars (photo: Volkswagen AG)
