EVI: The Need of the Hour

The pandemic situation of the last two years and the increasingly critical environmental situation is pushing us all towards an increasingly green ecological transition, which is leading the way in energy generation from clean renewable sources and zero impact, but which is making more and more room for mobility, especially that generated by non-combustion sources that are totally green (the so-called “Full Electric”) or hybrid (the so-called “Plug-in”).

India is moving fast on the conversion front. At a meeting about zero-emission mobility infrastructures, Energy Minister R K Singh announced that every new petrol station owned by state-owned petrol companies will also have electric vehicle (EV) charging points. This is a real revolution that could, in a few short steps, transform the mobility of a nation that, with 1.4 billion inhabitants, is the second most populous country on the planet, after China.

In India, especially in recent months, we have been working with the support of our local colleagues to conclude important agreements aimed at meeting the needs that the Indian government is also beginning to promote strongly.

Market demands
The main requests from the market are mainly linked to infrastructural capillarity, and therefore to residential, commercial, and business solutions, that help users to have greater availability when charging their vehicles, especially in areas where they spend more time.

The solutions developed by FIMER cover every market segment, with functions exclusively aimed at meeting the needs of businesses (e.g. Load Management and Master/Slave solutions), residential users (e.g. Stand Alone, Inverter Net, Load management solutions), shopping centers and car parkings (with the payment terminal solution and multi-point charge management similar to a fuel station) and finally the public, with solutions connected to remote management and accounting platforms.
 

India, in line with the country’s economic standards, needs a quality-price product, that can satisfy any socio-economic scenario and therefore at a reasonable price. In fact, Indian automotive leaders are also breaking into the electric car market and doing so with competitively priced models. At the Auto Expo Delhi 2020, one of the most important automotive technology shows in Asia, the exhibitors included India’s two leading carmakers, Tata and Mahindra, which presented new electric car models at very competitive prices.
 

FIMER FLEXA AC Wallbox and FIMER ELECTRA DC Station: these are the products that Country India needs today.

Technical novelties
On this point, let’s say that the market is so fast and demanding that there is no time to release new functionality that is immediately overtaken by others. The main functionalities that today make the installation and management of recharging infrastructures indispensable are all aimed at integrating the system into the domestic environment, just think of dynamic energy management to avoid domestic overloads and subsequent intervention of the energy meter, or the integration and efficiency of the energy produced and stored in the home through integrated systems with photovoltaic (PV) inverters.

Conclusion
Electric cars will undoubtedly be extended in terms of range capacity, as today’s electric cars mainly have difficulty in guaranteeing long distances. They will also be more accessible in economic terms as the competitiveness and experience of this technology begins to be consolidated and established. They will certainly include technology that is increasingly aimed at simplifying communication and use for us. EV charging stations will have to take the same or even greater steps to increase their charging capacity in terms of ease of use, integration into the business/commercial and residential environment, and continuity of service. So, it will also be indispensable to have one’s own charging infrastructure (especially Wallbox) at home.

- Gaetano Belluccio, Managing Director, EVI LoB, FIMER