In the future, VW electric cars will communicate independently with charging stations
Created: 12/16/2021, 2:20 PM
By: Alexander Eser-Ruperti
Volkswagen is investing heavily in electromobility, and that is paying off.
The user friendliness of e-cars could soon benefit from this.
Wolfsburg - Volkswagen recently presented its investment plan for the coming years, including plans for the VW electric car.
The car manufacturer from Lower Saxony is planning large investments in electromobility and is taking rapid steps towards switching to the VW electric car.
Most recently, in a study, users complained about their experience with e-car charging stations that Volkswagen could now have achieved an important development in one area.
Group: | Volkswagen AG |
Segment: | Automobile manufacturer |
Headquarters: | Wolfsburg |
In the future, the VW electric car should be able to automatically communicate with e-car charging stations
It is a further step on Volkswagen's path to e-mobility: The group wants to make communication between VW electric cars and e-car charging stations easier.
The charging process could look a lot easier in the near future - this would be an important development for user-friendliness.
So far, the payment process has been as follows: The charging station was activated using a card or app in order to start the charging process.
It will look different in the future.
The communication between e-car charging stations and the VW electric car will soon be fully automated, according to the group.
The driver would then no longer have to identify himself at the column, but could start the charging process directly - the car does the rest.
If the Wolfsburg-based carmaker has their way, charging will soon also work wirelessly for e-cars.
So far, there have not only been problems with e-car charging stations in the VW electric car
A study by the ADAC recently showed that many owners of electric cars are very dissatisfied with their experience with electric car charging stations.
The study revealed that charging points are often broken or cannot be found.
Even the new technology in the VW electric car cannot change these problems.
Some car manufacturers are now hoping for a completely new technology that does not need charging points - solar cars.
An e-car charges up with electricity.
In the future, the VW electric car will take over a large part of the interaction with e-car charging stations itself.
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The survey of over 400 e-car drivers by the ADAC revealed another finding: Many users were particularly dissatisfied with the activation of charging stations for electric cars.
Again and again, charging cards or charging apps would not be accepted.
Volkswagen would remedy this problem with the new technology in its e-cars.
This does not solve another problem: the previously inadequate infrastructure at charging stations.
There is a lack of infrastructure for e-car charging stations for electric cars, which, according to Transport Minister Wissing, should change quickly
The turnaround in traffic is a process, at times a slow one. Owners of e-cars also notice this when they are looking for e-car charging stations. There is a lack of infrastructure. Politicians also know that, which is why the federal government has now launched a new funding program for the charging infrastructure. One point that is repeatedly forgotten is finally coming more into focus - barrier-free charging stations.
The new transport minister in Olaf Scholz's cabinet, Volker Wissing, has now also promised further speed in expanding the infrastructure for charging stations.
Wissing told the ZDF-Morgenmagazin that one had to "create a nationwide offer for the charging station infrastructure".
This also applies to the construction of fast charging stations for electric cars.
The new transport minister stated that “waiting hours for the car to be charged” was “not an attractive mobility offer”.
Owners of VW electric cars should see it that way too - in the future, however, the “fueled” electricity could still be used differently via their car.
The VW electric car should not only be able to drive electrically - the electric car should soon also become a temporary storage facility for electricity
From the e-car charging station, into the VW electric car, into the house.
This is what the idea of Volkswagen looks like.
If the Wolfsburg-based company has its way, its e-cars will also be used as temporary storage in the future.
Unused electricity should then be able to be fed into the public grid or into one's own house via the electric car.
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VW wants to use battery cars as storage and thus improve energy efficiency.
So far, however, e-cars have already lost a lot of electricity during the charging process.
The VW group stated that the technology of the so-called "bidirectional charging" was about to be launched on the market.
Batteries with a large capacity are a prerequisite for excess electricity.
There is a great need for innovation in this field.
A research group from Germany could now have achieved the breakthrough.
So far, the range of most electric cars has been rather short.
E-mobility is a large new market that automobile manufacturers are opening up at different speeds.
Volkswagen is already investing a lot in its electric cars, and that seems to be paying off. * Kreiszeitung.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.