BYD to install thousands of 5-minute EV chargers across Europe

Chinese EV colossus BYD has announced plans to velocity up its conquest of the European car marketplace with the rollout of superfast Flash Chargers crossed the continent. BYD has already installed the archetypal caller chargers successful Germany and the UK, and plans to rotation retired 3,000 crossed Europe by the extremity of adjacent year.

At an estimated outgo of €580,000 (about $670,000) per charger according to the Financial Times, that would mean a full walk of astir $2 cardinal to instal the network. The 1,500kW charging stations are importantly much almighty than Tesla's 500kW V4 Superchargers, though Tesla already has 20,000 chargers installed successful Europe. BYD, which h …

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