BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s

A BYD car being charged astatine the company’s Berlin store past year. | Photo: Jens Kalaene / representation confederation via Getty Images

Chinese electrical conveyance shaper BYD has revealed caller fast-charging tech that tin adhd 400km (249 miles) of scope from a 5 infinitesimal charge. With the announcement, BYD has besides promised to marque a large concern successful charging infrastructure, gathering implicit 4,000 of the caller accelerated chargers crossed China.

The “Super e-Platform” tech is susceptible of charging astatine highest speeds of 1,000kW, treble the fastest Tesla V4 superchargers, which volition highest astatine 500kW erstwhile they rotation retired this year. The faster charging tech is initially disposable successful 2 caller vehicles, the Han L sedan and Tang L SUV, which commencement astatine 270,000 yuan (around $37,330). 

“In bid to wholly lick our users’ charging anxiety, we person been pursuing a extremity to marque the charging clip of electrical vehicles arsenic abbreviated arsenic the refuelling clip of petrol vehicles,” BYD laminitis Wang Chuanfu said from a Shenzhen motorboat event. “This is the archetypal clip successful the manufacture that the portion of megawatt has been achieved connected charging power.”

BYD has besides committed to gathering implicit 4,000 ultra-fast chargers crossed China utilizing the caller platform, though didn’t specify a timeframe for that project. That’s a notable move, fixed that Reuters reports that astir BYD owners successful China trust connected different manufacturers’ chargers to support their cars topped up.

This isn’t BYD’s lone headline-grabbing move. Earlier this period it launched a roof-mounted drone launcher compatible with each of its cars, designed successful collaboration with DJI, which allows drones to instrumentality disconnected and onshore astatine up to 25 km/h. The institution is closing the spread connected Tesla, having sold 1.76 cardinal cars successful 2024, conscionable down Tesla’s 1.79 million, though 90 percent of those income person been successful China, and are led by its hybrid vehicles.