Enter the Primary Market Investment

The most important aspect of entering the primary market investment is to assess the growth potential of the industry.

Personally, I believe the most impressive aspect of Tesla is that it has broken the previous model of Americans inventing and engineering prototypes, the Japanese developing materials, and the Chinese producing them in bulk. Tesla has integrated its original scientific and technological innovation capabilities in the United States with its strong manufacturing capabilities (which is also inseparable from its grounding in China), greatly shortening the path from innovation to commercialization.

Currently, it seems that we are struggling to catch up with Tesla. Today, Fan said to me that we are crossing the river by feeling the stones, following in Tesla’s footsteps.

In the field of charging, I’ve seen two interesting things:

1) ROCSYS’ Automatic Charging Technology:

This solution addresses the pain points by allowing the charging head to be plugged into the interface after the car is parked, solving the problem of human factors without the need for the driver to get out of the car.

2) The heat exchange material charging cable technology developed by Ford and Purdue University:

This technology solves the problem of large current in the charging interface and cable.

ROCSYS’ Automatic Charging Technology

This is quite interesting, and it’s actually similar to what Tesla did with the robotic charging system. It’s done within a certain range of compatibility. This logic is similar to what NIO did with APA, which is used in second-generation charging stations.

The pain point of this technology lies in the automatic operation of the charging station: automatic unlocking, reversing, and connecting the cable to the charging port, providing drivers with the convenience brought by high-tech without requiring them to get out of the car. The whole car is automatically charged and parked in the buffer zone, making the operation completely unmanned.

In this case, the car must automatically open its charging port, and the charging cable and the charging interface can be adjusted by the charging station to achieve cooperation.

ROCSYS’ solution is ingeniously installed on the existing charging station.

I believe that companies in China can also come up with solutions like this. If any companies have ideas, please contact me on WeChat: 17717085336. I position myself as a collector of hardcore technology companies, so contacting me is not wrong.

Ford and Purdue University’s Liquid Cooling Design

The cooperation between Ford and Purdue University is also very meaningful. They mainly embed phase change materials in ultra-fast charging cables.

Purdue University focuses on replacing the liquid cooling method, which is not yet widely popular in China, by designing a charging cable that can provide greater current. The charging cable uses liquid as an active coolant. It can extract more heat from the cable by converting the substance from liquid to vapor. Compared with the current advanced liquid cooling technology in the European and American markets, there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Purdue University has released a chart showing that in laboratory tests, it can achieve about 5 times higher current (2,500A) than the approximately 500A achieved in the most advanced commercial solutions.

Summary: Both technologies focus on charging. With both vehicle-side and charging-pile-side efforts, many new technologies will be introduced into the charging experience, which will greatly promote the popularization of electric vehicles!

This article is a translation by ChatGPT of a Chinese report from 42HOW. If you have any questions about it, please email bd@42how.com.