The world is facing a transition to electric transportation. The collective target for Europe is 5.8M Electric Vehicles (EV) on the roads by 2020. This target is part of an ambitious effort to significantly reduce the CO2 emissions, air pollution and heavy dependence on imported oil as well as maintaining a leading position within automobile technology in Europe. Consequently, drivers need an EV-charging infrastructure as convenient as the current network of fuelling stations to overcome range anxiety and massively adopt EV, therefore, the installation of high power charging infrastructure will be crucial for the electrification of the transportation sector.
There is only one problem: The world is lacking cost-effective High Power fast Charging Infrastructure. This will become even more crucial with the imminent introduction of new EV able to charge at 150 kW and 350 kW. Competing high power chargers are expensive to install and create high power peaks, generating further problems for power grids already struggling to absorb the unstable generation from renewable energy sources. By using a battery as a buffer, Project Buffer solves the technical aspects of the high-power-charging issue and simultaneously adds to stabilize the power grid.
Project Buffer will facilitate a cost-efficient rollout of high power charging infrastructure. The battery packs add value to an infrastructure for charging EVs already in high demand. The resulting Buffer High Power Charging (B-HPC) stations combine the battery and the charging station using a patent-pending technology to create a disruptive product that can change the playing field in EV-charging infrastructure.
Based on low-cost hardware components connected with a battery, the B-HPC system offers the most cost-efficient alternative to traditional high power charging and provides a highly scalable solution to infrastructure providers.
