Huawei will unveil its megawatt-level supercharger on April 22, becoming a member of BYD, Didi and Zeekr. It’s going to 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 Automobile 100 Discussion board. The supercharger can cost 20 kWh per minute and absolutely cost the car in quarter-hour, Jinlong mentioned.
Not like Zeekr’s and BYD’s superchargers, that are geared toward passenger automobiles, Huawei’s 1.5 MW charger shall be geared toward heavy-duty vehicles. “For heavy-duty vehicles to be absolutely electrified, the charging time should be underneath 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 power storage programs, 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 could set up 4000 models 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 rivals:
- 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 and not using a driver needing to go away the automotive 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 robotically plugged in.
The EV arm was connected to Huawei’s 600 kW charger, however will be mounted on any charging station.
