Electric vehicles: Chinese robot chargers start-up GGSN eyes investors, international expansion via new Hong Kong facilities

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GGSN, which is partly owned by New World Group, is in talks to set up research, product development and marketing facilities in Hong Kong

Founder Kevin Deng is a speaker at the Hong Kong GreenTech Summit on February 26 that will kick off a week of events to promote green technology and finance

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GGSN’s mobile EV charging robot in action in an office tower car park in Shanghai. Photo: SCMP Handout

Eric Ng

Published: 2:08pm, 21 Feb 2024

Guoguangshunneng (Shanghai) Energy Technology (GGSN), a mobile electric vehicle charging start-up partly owned by New World Group, is in talks to set up research, product development and marketing facilities in Hong Kong.

The two-year-old Shanghai-based firm, which is seeking to commercialise its autonomous EV charging robots, is in discussion with Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, said Kevin Deng Xiaoguang.

It is also seeking to broaden its shareholder base to help fund expansion plans that include a product roll-out in Hong Kong, said Deng, the former director of electric power systems at China’s largest car maker, SAIC Motor.

Deng is one of the key contributors to the drafting of China’s industry standards for EV battery charging.

“We pay a lot of attention to the Hong Kong market, which can be a platform for developing overseas markets,” he said in an interview.

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“We have been conducting market research and developing partnerships in the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia and other regions, and hope to see further results on the ground this year.”