ABB E-mobility’s New A400 All-in-One Charger: From Chargers to Managed Assets

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The A400:
• gives highest energy density with the bottom footprint,
• affords a seamless smartphone-level consumer expertise to EV house owners,
• has been constructed to ship best-in-class lifetime economics, and
• delivers telecom-level asset-management by way of efficiency SLAs.

Zurich, Switzerland — In right now’s EV charging trade, lack of reliability, advanced charging experiences for drivers and inadequate return on funding (ROI) are three key challenges for proprietor/operators and fleets that hinder large-scale deployment of charging infrastructure. The brand new A400 All-in-One charger affords the best energy density with the smallest footprint and addresses these challenges head-on by introducing improvements in these three drawback areas: a holistic, end-user centric expertise design, industrialized modularity and system engineering, and a telecom-level strategy to asset administration.

Right now, charging success charges are mediocre at finest, usually under 70%. When approaching a charger, drivers of personal or business autos are sometimes confused about how you can use the chargers, face fee points that block the charging course of, and too usually suppose their automobile is charging when it isn’t.

The A400 has been developed with a consumer-centric design strategy targeted on attaining the best charging success charges doable. The A400 enhances the general charging course of by creating readability and decreasing friction factors between automobile, charger, and fee techniques to make sure a seamless expertise from arrival to completion. With its intuitive consumer interface displayed on a big 32-inch display, the A400 is as simple and acquainted to make use of as your smartphone. It guides the consumer step-by-step and confirms the charging standing and completion of the charging course of with the ambition of a 99% charging success fee.

The A400 is greater than only a {hardware} product. With its new cloud-based asset administration toolchain, will probably be doable to handle charging belongings on the highest degree – like telecommunication networks, the place reliability, scalability, interoperability, safety, and efficiency play an essential position. Which means that the A400 comes with 24/7 asset administration service-level agreements (SLAs) that focus on 99% charging success charges, in addition to 97% uptime and quick service response occasions.

For a lot of fleets and proprietor/operators, the main target lately has been primarily on putting in energy – peak energy and quantity of energy. The query has been “how much installed power do I get for my money?” The outcome has been a pursuit of amount over high quality. ABB E-Mobility believes that as an trade, we have to proceed to deploy extra energy and enhance grid densities because the put in base of EV fleets continues to develop. On the similar time, we have to discover a higher steadiness between simply putting in extra energy on the one hand and extra reliability and extra energy sharing on the opposite. That’s why ABB E-mobility designed the A400 with the purpose of attaining a 10-year product lifetime, excessive reliability and, most significantly, enabling our prospects to promote power on the lowest price. This may considerably enhance the client’s backside line.

As well as, the dynamic energy sharing with a granularity of fifty kW helps to take completely different charging patterns under consideration, whereas in-house constructed silicon carbide-based energy modules, most environment friendly air cooling, and a extremely industrialized system design ship the required reliability.

ABB E-mobility is the primary to implement two-phase cooling know-how (liquid to vapor to liquid) right into a charging connector able to as much as 600 amperes of peak present. This patented know-how is extra dependable and environment friendly, with decrease upkeep price than conventional liquid cooled cable options.

“Charging networks constitute a mission-critical transport infrastructure on the way to an energy-efficient and climate-neutral mobility era. The A400 has been designed from the ground up as a system for the reliable and cost-effective delivery of energy, enabling our customers to operate their network at the highest level, and achieving their desired economic outcome,” mentioned Michael Halbherr, CEO of ABB E-mobility. “At ABB E-Mobility, we have taken key lessons from our extensive experience and are obsessed with creating a charging experience that is reliable, scalable, managed and secure, while ensuring interoperability and performance.”

What the A400 Delivers:

• Two charging ports present 200kW of steady charging energy to 2 autos, as much as 400kW for a single automobile, compliant with all relevant governmental necessities and funding parameters within the U.S. and Europe.
• Silicon carbide energy modules developed and produced in-house, organized in modular 100 kW blocks, permit two autos to be charged concurrently in 50 kW increments to make sure that solely the required energy is drawn, and fewer unsold capability stays.
• The primary to implement two-phase cooling know-how (liquid to vapor to liquid) right into a charging connector able to as much as 600 amperes of peak present. This patented know-how is extra dependable and environment friendly, with decrease upkeep price than conventional liquid cooled cable options.
• Cost circulate built-in into the charger’s consumer interface permits hassle-free fee transactions and eliminates one of many principal causes for low charging success charges: a scarcity of interoperability with third-party fee techniques.
• Lean design methods and modularization result in fewer components, allow intensive subsystem testing, facilitate the upkeep and restore of the system, whereas enhancing serviceability and sturdiness.
• A compact footprint with maximally optimized airflow ensures increased energy charging periods and long-term reliability.
• Efficiency-based SLAs primarily based on a brand new asset administration toolchain together with a streamlined service course of will result in excessive charging success charges and availability in addition to quicker service response occasions.

For extra data on A400, please go to A400.abb-emobility.com. This charger shall be publicly viewable for the primary time at ACT Expo 2024 in ABB E-mobility’s sales space #3800.

Press launch from ABB E-mobility.