Seeking Alpha, Wallbox CEO Wallbox CEO Enric Asunción - Electric Cars’ Tipping Point (Video), 8/24/21
that was 2013, everybody was focused on making static charges for the street without intelligence. They, you know, the focus was not to solve the moment and that was the key make possible the transition to contract for electric cars, well first of all short selling a home because the price of the energy changes by the hour, you have limited available power at home. You know you want to manage energy because you know we have solar power you have different sources of energy, one is cleaner, so six years ago I decided to leave Tesla, to start Wallbox. And you know we knew exactly what to, you know, we, we, first of all start by solving home charging. And we’ve done this in all continents, then charging at work, you know, and in front of us, You know, if you already know how much each neighbor is spending, and 17 was automatically at the end of the month, our hardware and or software can do all these things. And now the challenge since last year, it is reached a tipping point has been public charging, and we have you know presented our new product Supernova, which is amazing public charter well we have a lot of foreigners coming for this product, but the reason why we start, is because nobody was focusing on what really matters. At the moment, which is, first of all, charging 80% of charging habits.
Josh Kincaid 8:28
That makes sense, but that other 20% is on the road, according to Tesla, at least people want to use a bathroom, they want a restaurant to eat some food and get some coffee. So same thing that gas stations provide they provide, you know, some, some food, maybe a bathroom that nobody wants to use. And then charging so you left Tesla before they filed for a trademark on restaurants, is that the solution is that what people want is to go to a restaurant and use a bathroom or did they just want a fast charging station.
Enric Asunción 9:10
I think first of all what people want is the cheapest energy. And that’s period, you know, You won’t buy an iPhone or Apple work. You know, your fastest charging is important but as an EV user, you know, I, know, we have also the data from a company called electromax waterworks internal charging app that enables you to locate unsafe and painful public chargers, we are, these are leading charging up in Southern Europe, so we have more than 150,000 charges connected. We don’t own these chargers, we just have agreements with the telephone operators, play network customers access this public charges. And what people chooses the charging stations, based on comments on other users. So, you know, in real time people say that works that doesn’t because the main problem of charging is reliability. You want to know that it is going to work in this place. This causes like 50% of the past political infrastructure doesn’t work. So, I will say the first thing is that works, and the second is, you know, people say if this is a nice restaurant or restroom, is not many people there, or you can call properly your car, these kind of things is what people value in our in our platform. And that’s why we acquire a one year old electronics to get this data, make sure our users also have access to this, it’s like the waves of turning.