1.) Envoy Technologies, Hyliion, Ztractor, Lucid Motors, Tesla, Rad Power Bikes, Revel, ChargePoint (most prevalent and available to Birmingham area as UAB provides them downtown.) Tesla and ChargePoint are the two largest competitors.
Electric Car Charger Installers in Birmingham: Mister Sparky of Birmingham, Bill Rasberry Electric Co, Aux Mechanical, Superior Service Electric.
Focus on charging. Super charging. (Increasing charging efficiency).
Tesla’s superchargers are being made accessible to other electric cars.
"Supercharger" is the generic term for an air compressor used to increase the pressure or density of air entering an engine, providing more oxygen with which to burn fuel.
What specific problem within this idea are you going to focus on (must be narrower than early exploration problem statements)?
Specific problem/ gap
Charging deficiency. (availability of charging stations is extremely low)
Inefficient chargers. (long charge times for little power.)
More specifically, availability of superchargers/ level 3 chargers
Is your proposed solution a product, a service, or both? Do you need all of them to differentiate or should you only focus on one? Our proposed solution revolves around a product as we could not provide a solution to our gap without some sort of charging operation. It might possibly end up being a service if we decide a new business strategy for the electric vehicle market.
Potential components of ur potential solutions
Power source (connecting to the electric grid) 2 types of electric cars:
plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). -popular with drivers who want an electric car with a backup internal combustion engine for long distance driving. (14 -50 miles of electric driving before gas engine kicks in)
and battery electric vehicles (BEVs)
3 types of EV charging speeds
Level 1, 2, 3/DC Fast Charging
Custom installation VS wall outlets
What specific questions does this analysis raise for you in terms of evaluating the viability of your idea?
- How much energy per month it takes up to charge at home and its costs?
- Will there be public charging stations? If so, how rare will they be?
- Why are electric cars more expensive to insure? Could this affect our market?
- Costs range between levels of chargers, what level charger would we want to build and would this fit in our financial plan?
- How to be able to figure out how many Electric Vehicles are purchased and used to base how much product is needed to be made and sold?
- How can we compete against a company like Tesla?