Oil giant players began to grab the charging market

Oil giant players began to grab the charging market

With the general trend of global carbon neutrality, as the process of energy saving and emission reduction increases, electric vehicles are becoming more and more popular, and the global electric vehicle penetration rate continues to increase. Previously, many countries and regions have successively announced the ban on the sale of fuel vehicles: Canada announced a ban on the sale of fuel vehicles from 2035, aiming to achieve net zero emissions nationwide by 2050; the United Kingdom will ban the sale of fuel vehicles in 2030; Japan releases green The growth plan is to ban the sale of gasoline vehicles in 2035; the Biden government also released the latest plan on Thursday, local time, that the sales of zero-emission vehicles in 2030 will account for 50% of the total sales of new vehicles. Faced with such changes, the oil giants who rely on traditional fuel vehicles can no longer sit still, and have started to follow the trend of the times, and begin to lay out the charging market.

British Petroleum BP

BP is one of the world's leading oil and gas companies, headquartered in London, and engaged in production and operations in more than 70 countries around the world. In recent years, in view of the rapid development of the global new energy vehicle market, BP has also actively devoted itself to the electric vehicle industry. In 2018, BP acquired Chargemaster, the largest charging station operating network in the UK, and successively invested in Israeli ultra-fast rechargeable battery company StoreDot; mobile charging company Freewire Technologies and other related companies in the charging field. This in-depth cooperation with Didi is an important signal for BP to open up China's new energy vehicle charging market and will help BP to further expand its advanced mobile travel business globally.

Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum

Shell Petroleum, the company with the largest number of gas stations in the world, announced in 2017 the acquisition of NewMotion, Europe's largest operator of electric vehicle charging stations. In the same year, fast charging equipment for electric vehicles was installed at Shell gas station outlets near London and in the north of England, and fast charging services for electric vehicles were launched. Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Corporation announced that it will significantly expand its electric car charging station network in the UK. It plans to have 50,000 charging stations on the streets of the UK by 2025.

The United Kingdom plans to ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2030. By 2030, the United Kingdom will need 280,000 to 480,000 charging stations, compared to only 25,000 now. In order to support the expansion of its charging stations in the UK, Shell plans to help the local government raise funds for installation. Shell will implement this plan through its subsidiary Ubitricity. Ubitricity, a street charging station company acquired by Shell in February, operates approximately 3,600 charging stations in the UK.

In addition, Shell’s goal is to increase its global network of electric vehicle charging stations from the current 60,000 to 500,000 by 2025 as part of its strategy to become a carbon-neutral emission company by the middle of this century.

GS Caltex Corporation

South Korea's LG Electronics will cooperate with GS Caltex Corporation to develop a new generation of charging stations for electric vehicles. The combination of the electronics giant and the oil company hopes to transform the existing car gas station into a "mobile travel energy aggregation station." The first step of the cooperation is to install a number of 350kW charging stations at Jiaxian Taxi gas stations, and consider further installation of robots and wireless chargers in the future.

Suncor

Petro-Canada Suncor announced that it will establish the first fast charger coast network in the local area. The charging network will be located on the Trans-Canada Highway. The initial construction will consist of more than 50 stations. In addition, the French oil giant Total also stated that it will rely on its own gas stations to build charging stations.

Total

French oil giant Total also said that it will build charging stations in France relying on its own gas stations. Before that, Total went one step further and spent $1 billion in 2016 to acquire battery manufacturer Saft. This company originally produced power batteries, which were once supplied for Mercedes-Benz S400Hybrid.

Foreign oil giants are frantically exploring the fringe of aggressively entering the new energy field, and the domestic "three barrels of oil" is already undercurrent. After the release of the domestic policy to encourage charging infrastructure, various localities have increased their investment in the construction of charging piles, and the "three barrels of oil" are also deploying charging pile equipment.

SINOPEC

In 2015, Sinopec and BAIC New Energy signed a strategic cooperation agreement to cooperate in the use of gas station site resources to build power swap stations, solve the problem of power swap facilities construction site resources, and improve the operating efficiency of electric taxis by providing power swap services for taxis. In addition, the follow-up will carry out the supporting construction of charging and swapping stations according to the promotion of electric vehicles, and make every effort to build a group of charging and swapping stations in Beijing.

Recently, Sinopec’s "Driver's Home" 1,000-seat completion and annual social responsibility report conference in Beijing announced that China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation has built 570 charging stations.

It is undeniable that oil companies "embrace" new energy, especially in the layout of electric vehicles. They have certain advantages. The original gas station has solved the problem of land and electricity for the construction of charging piles, and it is also more important for the automobile industry. In place. As Chris Smith, vice president of Sunco, said, "With the advent of low-carbon travel, new customer needs will continue to grow. We have more than 1,800 gas stations, which will be very beneficial to building a charging network. With the With the advancement of technology, we can continue to upgrade the charging network and provide customers with more convenient charging methods."

In fact, whether at home or abroad, traditional energy giants actively seek to transform and "embrace" the charging industry has become a general trend. From the revolution of the oil giants, we can see that the transformation of traditional cars is the general trend, and the arrival of the new energy era is unstoppable.

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