Every day, Anicet Mbida makes us discover an innovation that could well change the way we consume.
This Monday, he presents us a robot charger for electric cars.
The innovation of the day is the return of pump attendants.
They had disappeared from gas stations and are returning as robots to recharge electric cars.
It will suffice to park anywhere in a parking lot.
No need to go next to the charger, it is the charger itself that will come to the car.
You know that the lack of charging points hinders the use of electric cars.
And since we will never be able to install a charger in all parking spaces, we are starting to offer robot-pump attendants that will directly recharge the cars where they are parked.
How it works ?
Do you have to go to a terminal, enter your license plate number?
No, everything happens in an application that geo-locates the car.
We tell him that we have it for 30 minutes, an hour or all evening and a small robot will come to fill up with electricity.
And when it is finished, it will return to its charging station to recharge.
This is very practical for parking lots in shopping centers, residences or businesses, as they often have very few spaces reserved for recharging.
With this system, everyone will be able to benefit from it, without having to squat in the reserved places.
And in the future, the more electric cars there are, the more robots will be added.
Is it already available in some car parks?
For the moment, these are mainly experiments, because in this market, until now, there were only small startups like the French from Mob Energy.
But everything has just accelerated with the announcement of a Volkwagen robot and massive deployments.
Volkwagen trying to redeem itself from the Diesel emissions cheating scandal.
This is the first good news for 2021: we will increasingly separate charging and parking.