Huawei will unveil its megawatt-level supercharger on April 22, becoming a member of BYD, Didi and Zeekr. It would have a peak output of 1.5 MW and a most charging present of two,400 A.
Hou Jinlong, Huawei’s president of Digital Vitality, introduced the brand new charger on the China Electrical Car 100 Discussion board. The supercharger can cost 20 kWh per minute and absolutely cost the car in quarter-hour, Jinlong mentioned.
In contrast to Zeekr’s and BYD’s superchargers, that are aimed toward passenger automobiles, Huawei’s 1.5 MW charger might be aimed toward heavy-duty vehicles. “For heavy-duty vehicles to be absolutely electrified, the charging time have to be beneath half-hour,” Jinlong mentioned.
On the identical day that Huawei introduced its 1.5 MW supercharger, Zeekr’s Vice President introduced that the corporate will launch its 1.2 MG supercharger within the second quarter. Zeekr up to date its charging stations from 360 kW to 800 kW over the previous three years. The corporate at present operates 826 charging stations in China.
Earlier this month, BYD unveiled its 1,000 kW quick charger able to including 2 km per second or 400 km in 5 minutes. BYD will equip the charging stations with vitality storage techniques, permitting them to ship 1,000 kW of charging energy even in areas the place the native grid can not provide sufficient electrical energy.
The Shenzhen-based automaker introduced it will set up 4000 items of 1 MW quick chargers, with the primary 500 to be deployed in April. For comparability, that’s double the Tesla V4 Cupboard energy and much from different opponents:
- Tesla V4: 500 kW.
- Li Auto 5C: 520 kW.
- NIO Energy: 640 kW.
- Xpeng S5: 800 kW
On January 15, Huwei teased a video of an unmanned EV charging robotic arm mounted on its charger. The brand new system can cost an electrical car with no driver needing to go away the automobile and manually join the charging cable.
Within the video, Huawei demonstrated the unmanned charging on the Maextro S800 sedan, which autonomously parks subsequent to the charger outfitted with the robotic arm and will get mechanically plugged in.
The EV arm was hooked up to Huawei’s 600 kW charger, however may be mounted on any charging station.
