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The new ABB E-mobility A400 All-in-One Charger delivers superior power density with a compact footprint, ensuring an intuitive user experience for electric vehicle (EV) owners. This advanced charger promises enhanced reliability and asset management, meeting the growing demands of the EV industry.
Key Highlights:
- Highest Power Density: Smallest footprint in its class.
- Intuitive User Interface: Seamless smartphone-like experience.
- Best-in-Class Lifetime Economics: Telecom-level asset management.
- 99% Charging Success Rate: Focused on clarity and reducing friction points.
- Two-Phase Cooling Technology: Efficient and low maintenance.
- 24/7 Asset Management SLAs: High reliability and fast service response times.
Addressing Industry Challenges
The A400 All-in-One charger tackles three significant challenges in the EV charging industry: reliability, user experience, and return on investment (ROI). With mediocre charging success rates often below 70%, drivers face confusion, payment issues, and uncertainties about whether their vehicle is charging. The A400 aims to simplify the charging process, ensuring a seamless experience from arrival to completion.
User-Centric Design
Designed with a consumer-centric approach, the A400 enhances the overall charging process by creating clarity and reducing friction points between the car, charger, and payment systems. The 32-inch screen offers an intuitive interface, guiding users step-by-step and confirming the charging status, aiming for a 99% success rate.
Advanced Asset Management
Beyond hardware, the A400 integrates a cloud-based asset management toolchain. This allows for the management of charging assets at a high level, similar to telecommunication networks. The A400 includes 24/7 asset management service-level agreements (SLAs), targeting 99% charging success rates and 97% uptime, with swift service response times.
Focus on Reliability and Efficiency
ABB E-mobility emphasizes balancing installed power and reliability. The A400 is designed for a 10-year product lifetime, high reliability, and enabling customers to sell energy at the lowest cost. Dynamic power sharing, efficient air cooling, and industrialized system design contribute to enhanced reliability.
Innovative Cooling Technology
ABB E-mobility is the first to implement two-phase cooling technology (liquid to vapor to liquid) in a charging connector capable of up to 600 amperes of peak current. This patented technology is more reliable and efficient, with lower maintenance costs than traditional liquid-cooled cable solutions.
What the A400 Delivers
- Dual Charging Ports: Provides 200kW of continuous charging power to two vehicles, up to 400kW for a single vehicle.
- Silicon Carbide Power Modules: Allows simultaneous charging in 50 kW increments.
- Hassle-Free Payment: Integrated into the user interface, eliminating interoperability issues.
- Modular Design: Enhances serviceability and durability.
- Compact Footprint: Optimized airflow for long-term reliability.
- Performance-Based SLAs: Ensures high charging success rates and availability.
For more information, visit A400.abb-emobility.com. The A400 will be showcased at ACT Expo 2024 in ABB E-mobility’s booth #3800.
About ABB E-mobility
ABB E-mobility is a global leader in electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions, offering a wide portfolio of smart chargers. With approximately 1,500 employees worldwide, ABB E-mobility has sold over one million EV chargers across more than 85 markets, including over 50,000 DC fast chargers. Learn more.
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