Ginergy loading complex in the Dead Sea/Ginergy
After 49,000 electric cars entered Israel's roads in 2023, which almost doubled their number on the roads, in 2024 an additional 6,000 were delivered that were ordered and released from customs even before the purchase tax on electric vehicles increased at the beginning of the year.
Ran Aloya was there from the beginning, as someone who sold charging stations back in the days when Shay Agassi sold electric cars here.
Aloya, CEO and founder of Jinergy, has seen the market rise slowly from zero to a share of more than 20 percent this year.
"We feel the increase in the number of streetcars in all areas of activity," he says. In front of business companies and also in the network of our fast charging stations.
We recently doubled the number of sockets at our position in Netivot, already that day we saw a doubling of electricity consumption there.
The tram drivers are thirsty for positions with a power of 90-120 kilowatts and above, in good locations."
Ran Aloya.
"We feel the increase in the number of trams in all areas of activity"/Jinergy
What is the most important insight you have for someone who is considering purchasing an electric vehicle?
"It is difficult to manage without a station at home. It is not suitable for everyone to stop every time for half an hour to charge. There are quite a few electric car owners who do not have a station even though they can install it, we meet them in the fast charging network and they are frustrated by the waste of time. We have a wide fast charging network, and we are not Alone in the market, and yet, my suggestion: Install a station at home, anyone who can. We manage to install a station for almost every customer who has a parking space at home, finding the right solution for them from where to connect electricity to it. Even in large communal buildings, where we install managed charging stations, We manage to manage with the existing electricity supplier even when there are 25 or even 50 electric cars to charge. We don't always have to contact an electricity company to increase the connection."
What is the most important thing the state can do to promote the transition to an electric vehicle?
"Beyond stopping the increase in taxes on electric vehicles? We must impose supervision on charging prices in the public network, like there is for 95 octane gasoline. The prices in some networks are scandalous. There are companies that use fast charging to subsidize loss prices that they offer in the charging tenders published by the municipalities. So that's where they charge Only the tariff price (electricity company's price list that changes according to peak hours - AE) and another penny per kilowatt and the fast charging network in the same area charge more than two shekels per kilowatt.
There are even stations where the price is already approaching NIS 3 per kilowatt.
It's a margin that you can't live off of and the users of the fast charging are subsidizing the municipal vehicles and the residents."
What else?
"There needs to be regulation on electric charging providers like us, as is required of virtual electricity suppliers (companies that buy electricity from an electricity company or private suppliers and sell to their customers - A.E.).
The branch should be required to comply with a service agreement, to commit to the integrity of the system, to compensation for the customer in the event that it is not in order, and to cyber security.
All the companies guarantee that they meet all the requirements, but no one supervises them and there is no sanction in case of failure."
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Jinerji will deploy fast charging stations this year in Rosh Pina, adjacent to Highway 90, in Umm El Fachem adjacent to Highway 65, in Hadera in the city center, in Kfar Saba on the Kfar Saba bypass road and in Petah Tikva in Kiryat Aryeh.
Aloya: "There is great potential for the charging companies, but a focus is needed. Each market segment has specialties and requires service. It is impossible to keep all the balls in the air, the consumer is also more sophisticated today. Jinergy's focus is on the business sector and the shared buildings. There is We are unique in that we own both the software and the hardware, as we also manufacture charging stations ourselves. When you are not in control from end to end, the customer is thrown between the installers, the feature provider and the equipment. With us, everything is in house. We will work very hard this year on fast charging for public transportation. - 250 such charging sockets in the tenders we have already won."
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