The A400:
- provides highest power density with the lowest
footprint,
- offers a seamless smartphone-level user experience to EV
owners,
- has been built to deliver best-in-class lifetime economics,
and
- delivers telecom-level asset-management via
performance SLAs.
ZURICH,
May 14,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In today's EV charging industry,
lack of reliability, complex charging experiences for drivers and
insufficient return on investment (ROI) are three key challenges
for owner/operators and fleets that hinder large-scale deployment
of charging infrastructure. The new A400 All-in-One charger offers
the highest power density with the smallest footprint and addresses
these challenges head-on by introducing innovations in these three
problem areas: a holistic, end-user centric experience design,
industrialized modularity and system engineering, and a
telecom-level approach to asset management.
Today, charging success rates are mediocre at
best, often below 70%. When approaching a charger, drivers of
private or commercial vehicles are often confused about how to use
the chargers, face payment issues that block the charging process,
and too often think their vehicle is charging when it is not.
The A400 has been developed with a
consumer-centric design approach focused on achieving the highest
charging success rates possible. The A400 enhances the overall
charging process by creating clarity and reducing friction points
between car, charger, and payment systems to ensure a seamless
experience from arrival to completion. With its intuitive user
interface displayed on a large 32-inch screen, the A400 is as easy
and familiar to use as your smartphone. It guides the user step by
step and confirms the charging status and completion of the
charging process with the ambition of a 99% charging success
rate.
The A400 is more than just a hardware product.
With its new cloud-based asset management toolchain, it will be
possible to manage charging assets at the highest level - like
telecommunication networks, where reliability, scalability,
interoperability, security, and performance play an important role.
This means that the A400 comes with 24/7 asset management
service-level agreements (SLAs) that target 99% charging success
rates, as well as 97% uptime and fast service response times.
For many fleets and owner/operators, the focus in
recent years has been mainly on installing power - peak power and
volume of power. The question has been "how much installed power do
I get for my money?" The result has been a pursuit of quantity over
quality. ABB E-Mobility believes that as an industry, we need to
continue to deploy more power and increase grid densities as the
installed base of EV fleets continues to grow. At the same time, we
need to find a better balance between just installing more power on
the one hand and more reliability and more power sharing on the
other. That's why ABB E-mobility designed the A400 with the aim of
achieving a 10-year product lifetime, high reliability and, most
importantly, enabling our customers to sell energy at the lowest
cost. This will significantly improve the customer's bottom
line.
In addition, the dynamic power sharing with a
granularity of 50 kW helps to take different charging patterns into
account, while in-house built silicon carbide-based power modules,
maximum efficient air cooling, and a highly industrialized system
design deliver the required reliability.
ABB E-mobility is the first to implement
two-phase cooling technology (liquid to vapor to liquid) into a
charging connector capable of up to 600 amperes of peak current.
This patented technology is more reliable and efficient, with lower
maintenance cost than traditional liquid cooled cable
solutions.
"Charging networks constitute a mission-critical
transport infrastructure on the way to an energy-efficient and
climate-neutral mobility era. The A400 has been designed from the
ground up as a system for the reliable and cost-effective delivery
of energy, enabling our customers to operate their network at the
highest level, and achieving their desired economic outcome," said
Michael Halbherr, CEO of ABB
E-mobility. "At ABB E-Mobility, we have taken key lessons from our
extensive experience and are obsessed with creating a charging
experience that is reliable, scalable, managed and secure, while
ensuring interoperability and performance."
What the A400 Delivers:
- Two charging ports provide 200kW of continuous charging power
to two vehicles, up to 400kW for a single vehicle, compliant with
all applicable governmental requirements and funding parameters in
the U.S. and Europe.
- Silicon carbide power modules developed and produced in-house,
arranged in modular 100 kW blocks, allow two vehicles to be charged
simultaneously in 50 kW increments to ensure that only the required
power is drawn, and less unsold capacity remains.
- The first to implement two-phase cooling technology (liquid to
vapor to liquid) into a charging connector capable of up to 600
amperes of peak current. This patented technology is more reliable
and efficient, with lower maintenance cost than traditional liquid
cooled cable solutions.
- Payment flow integrated into the charger's user interface
enables hassle-free payment transactions and eliminates one of the
main causes for low charging success rates: a lack of
interoperability with third-party payment systems.
- Lean design techniques and modularization lead to fewer
parts, enable extensive subsystem testing, facilitate the
maintenance and repair of the system, while improving
serviceability and durability.
- A compact footprint with maximally optimized airflow ensures
higher power charging sessions and long-term reliability.
- Performance-based SLAs based on a new asset management
toolchain in conjunction with a streamlined service process will
lead to high charging success rates and availability as well as
faster service response times.
For more information on A400, please visit
A400.abb-emobility.com. This charger will be publicly viewable for
the first time at ACT Expo 2024 in ABB E-mobility's booth
#3800.
About ABB E-mobility
ABB E-mobility
enables a more sustainable and efficient mobility future as a
global leader in electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions. ABB
E-mobility is a partner of choice for the world's biggest EV OEMs
and nationwide EV charging network operators. It offers the widest
portfolio of EV charging solutions from smart chargers for the home
to high-power chargers for the highway stations of the future,
solutions for the electrification of fleets and charging for
electric buses and trucks. With ~1,500 employees around the world,
ABB E-mobility has sold more than one million EV chargers across
more than 85 markets, including over 50,000 DC fast chargers.
e-mobility.abb.com
For more information please contact:
Kristina Bohlmann
kristina.bohlmann@de.abb.com
Zeno Group for ABB E-mobility Inc.
abbemobility@zenogroup.com
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