"There are so many charging apps out there, it would be nice to have one that works on all the charging piles."That is the voice of many electric car owners.

In July last year, a charging APP called Lianhang Yizhi was launched, to the delight of countless electric car owners.After all, with it, car owners no longer need to download different apps for charging. Instead, they can use charging piles from different charging operators by connecting with yixing.

    The solid background of State Grid, China Southern Power Grid, Special Call and Xing Xing charging behind Lianxing charging also makes users full of expectations for it.

    Less than a year later, however, the charging APP that has brought joy to electric car owners suddenly announced that it was going offline and would stop charging from June 15.Make the outside world and the owner of a face question mark.

    Although lianxing technology said that the offline is to cooperate with the company's overall business transformation, but the acclaimed Lianxing Yitong why the sudden offline is still worth exploring.

A tough decision

    In July last year, after the launch of Lianxing Yitong APP, a wave of promotion was carried out, through which users were drawn to various groups of electric car owners and vouchers were issued to attract new users.

    Later, for a period of time, in the state Grid charging, but also specially for the united Bank Yitong promotion, download and use the United Bank Yitong APP charging, can enjoy a 15% discount.

    Relying on subsidies to attract customers, became the main line of yichong pull new means. 

    However, this approach, it seems that with the State network, south network, special calls, star charging client produced some conflicts. 

    Lianxing Yitong more users, the above several apps are facing the loss of users. 

    This is a difficult problem of ambidextral combat.The final result is user dispersion, who also do well.

Lianxing technology insiders said that the exit of The C-terminal service is not willing to compete with a number of charging operators for users.

Che Yun realized that, on the other hand, there were also technical considerations. 

    Charging pile companies, such as the State Grid, are developing plug-and-charge technology, which means drivers may no longer need to take out their phones and scan an APP to charge them.As long as the account is bound to the car and the charging gun is plugged in, the charge can be deducted automatically after charging. 

    Therefore, in the long run, APP scanning charging mode may disappear. 

No C end, is the curve saving the country?

    "Service industry" is the vision and original intention of the four major operators after Lianxing.Therefore, after moving from the front to the back, UTC shifted its overall positioning from "service car owners" to "service industry", and users from The C end to the B end. 

    In doing so, It is "curve-saving" at a time when c-terminal operators are doing little to please.

    But often the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny.

    But on the b-side, will it be easier to connect? 

    According to the electric car observer of Jones lang lasalle technology CEO AnJing interview, Jones lang lasalle will no longer appear as a charge service platform of science and technology, but rather as connectivity platform hub, will charge carriers all public and proprietary charging infrastructure data, reverse access platform operators and other traffic platform, implement any access to the user to use its products, in all access charging infrastructure can complete charging service. 

    For example, in a car owner's mobile phone, there is only one charging APP of State Grid, but since the state Grid has conducted data of Datong through the joint bank and special calls, the user can directly use the special calls through the APP of State Grid.The link bank plays the role of getting through data among them.

    At present, lianxing technology is building the concept of "a national network".By the end of April 2020, there are more than 140 operators cooperating with LIANhe Tech Connectivity platform, with a total access to more than 470,000 charging facilities, accounting for more than 85 percent of the national total.Of these, more than 270,000 are deeply interconnected, supporting stop-start, charging and payment, and covering 3.1 cities and 50,000 kilometers of expressways nationwide.

Behind the recent strategic cooperation between BMW and The State Grid, the charging network of United Technologies also looms. 

    For oems, this charging network is large enough that oems only need to cooperate with one oems to connect 85% of the charging network in China to their own APP and provide it to users.This will greatly optimize the experience of using its own APP.

    But the reality is that car companies have diverse needs.Getting through the charging network is only a very small part of it.

    The cooperation between BMW and State Grid involves research and innovation of charging technology, cooperation and promotion of charging service products, etc. It is worth mentioning that both sides will jointly develop high-power charging and photovoltaic charging. 

    That means car companies probably won't and won't need to work with UTC separately. 

    The network will empower its major shareholders and help them win big deals with carmakers.

    This means that UNITED Technologies will be transformed from a charging service provider to the "middle Taiwan" organization behind several major charging pile operators.

Summary of Che Yun:

    In the context of the new national infrastructure, lianhang technology from carnival to the end, it is indeed a pity.

    But the transformation of Lianhe Technology is also a trend.

    From the perspective of electric vehicle users, it is still a long way to go to make the national charging pile a network, which is more convenient than refueling.