In addition to the growth in electric transport, competition in the electric vehicle market is also increasing. As a result, rival companies resort to dishonest methods of fighting for customers and spread false information.
The well-known online resource autogeek.com.ua published a review of companies selling and servicing electric cars http://autogeek.com.ua/u-kogo-kupit-elektromobil-v-ukraine-obzor-prodavtsov/. This list included the company "AutoEnterprise", which currently has its own extensive network of charging stations. But instead of reliable information, we have lies in every line. The claim that access to charging units is only available to the company's clients is absolutely false.
The infrastructure of "AutoEnterprise" already includes more than 800 charging stations.
Map of "AutoEnterprise" charging stations
Any electric car owner can use the charging service, regardless of where the car was purchased; they just need to register on the service charge.autoenterprise.com.ua and top up their account. Any electric vehicle owner can refute this slanderous fact: just follow the simple registration steps – and you can charge every day.
The fight for leadership does not end there; the article states that "AutoEnterprise" imports batches of damaged and "flooded" cars.
Indeed, at the dawn of its career, the company was engaged in official repair and sale of such electric vehicles, as evidenced by the certificates of completed work, which "AutoEnterprise" can provide if necessary. "All electric vehicles previously imported from the USA underwent technical inspection and repair by the official Nissan dealer," comments Vasyl Mykhailovych Nevmerzhytskyi, who at that time was the director of the Nissan dealership center in Ukraine. Now Nevmerzhytskyi V.M. has become part of the team of the "AutoEnterprise" group of companies, as he could not remain indifferent to the topic of eco-transport.
Currently, the company does not engage in such deliveries to Ukraine but provides services for selling a wide range of used cars from the USA: Nissan Leaf, Tesla model S, BMW, Toyota RAV4, and others. Such electric cars differ from European and Asian counterparts in high assembly quality and reliability.
Here is another false fact in the article: "AutoEnterprise" failed to fulfill its promise to install ChaDeMo standard supercharger stations.
Although the first station of this type was installed back in the summer of 2015 on the territory of the "Magelan" shopping center, and today their number has increased to 100. If desired, all this can be easily verified.
The first ChaDeMo standard supercharger station
Kharkiv, 4a Okruzhnaya Doroga Street, "Magelan" shopping center
Finally, I would like to recall the scandal that broke out between the founder of Tesla Club Ukraine, Nazar Shymone-Davyda, and the company "AutoEnterprise" itself. As Nazar stated, "AutoEnterprise" replaced the phone numbers on charging devices in the Tesla Club network with its own contact details, which were posted on the PlugShare.com service. As evidence, the online publication autogeek.com.ua provided screenshots http://autogeek.com.ua/skandal-na-elektromobilnom-ryinke-ukrainyi-voyna-za-elektrozapravki-nabiraet-oborotyi/. "We were accused of changing the phones on the chargers, but the screenshots prove nothing. The data for editing on the Plugshare.com service is open to everyone; they could have done it themselves. There is no logic here, because their stations are not known for quality work; why would we take responsibility for non-working chargers and ruin our reputation?" – refuted the accusations Karina Savkova, marketing director of "AutoEnterprise". Indeed, why and, most importantly, for what purpose would we do this? The charging stations of Tesla Club Ukraine are not distinguished by reliability, functionality, or practicality, considering that you have to charge the car with a personal cable that costs about 200 dollars.
Nazar Shymone-Davyda himself does not hide his hostile attitude towards "AutoEnterprise" and comments on the situation as follows:
It is absurd to accuse your competitors of a bad concept when they are leaders in Ukraine in electric vehicle sales and have a well-established infrastructure that accounts for 97% of all charging stations in the country.
The result of good and coordinated work is evident:
- hundreds of private investors in the "Ecotaxi" project – receive an income of 5% per month from invested funds;
- the "Charge-sharing" program, which allows you to purchase a charging station at cost or in installments without interest.
And this is not the full list of "AutoEnterprise" projects, which primarily thinks about its customers. As a result of such a loyal policy focused on the interests of the company's clients, the electric car market in Ukraine is developing and gaining momentum. With his radical decisions, the general director of "AutoEnterprise" is destroying the speculative business of companies like Tesla Club Ukraine, which brazenly profit from a 300% markup on European chargers – the collapse of such a business is inevitable.
Passions are heating up in the Ukrainian electric car market, but it is important not to forget that dishonest methods of struggle and slander against competitors will not lead to anything good.
