According to Straits Times, a Singaporean company is launching a mobile charging service. It aims to make life easier for electric car owners by giving them access to better charging services.
Unless one has a dedicated wall box at home, getting an electric vehicle (EV) juiced up is pretty much left to utilizing chargers in the public domain. At this juncture, with the infrastructure still at a nascent stage, securing access to a permanent charging point can be challenging, requiring effort and waiting time at the location, which may not always be convenient to a user.
Local firm Power Up Tech (P.Up) provides on-demand DC fast charging services anywhere within Singapore from 9 am to 9 pm (Monday to Saturday), with each service visit lasting anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour, bringing the car’s battery to an 80% state of charge.
A 50 kWH Emergency mobile EV charging system, housed in a van (their company has three currently), provides the necessary. With an energy capacity of 52 kWh, the system can – depending on the type of vehicle – juice up to two EVs before recharging. Aside from CCS2 charging, the P. Up system can also work with EVs utilizing ChaDeMo connectors.
The reasoning for charging until an 80% SoC is simple enough, done in the interest of overall efficiency because charging speed and rate drops significantly for the last 20%. Besides the issue of time, there is also cost, as users would be paying for little gains from that point.
The company, which says its service is the first in the island state, has three prepaid packages priced from 73 cents (RM2.33) to 88 cents (RM2.81) per kWh. That is slightly higher than the fast-charging offered by Shell at its fixed locations, which is priced at 55 cents (RM1.76) per kWh, as well as that from utility company Singapore Power (SP) Group, which is 54.3 cents (RM1.74) per kWh – a small premium for the convenience of having charging brought to you.
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