Huawei Technologies plans to install and commission 100,000 EV charging outlets in China this year, Nikkei reports. Some of them will be class-leading 600-kW terminals and some will be sold to third-party charging station operators.
Huawei Digital Power began installing its chargers in China last year. The division of Huawei started off as a manufacturer of individual charger components, but later evolved into a self-sufficient vendor of custom charging solutions for EVs.
The ads claim you can get one kilometer (0.62 miles) of range per every second of charging, but that’s an overstatement: 5 minutes spent plugged in to the most powerful charger will net you 200 km (124 miles) of range instead of 300 km (186 mi).
Even so, that’s twice as fast as Tesla can do with its Supercharger network at the time. Elon Musk’s chargers currently installed in China max out at 250 kW. The company has already begun unrolling a new generation of terminals capable of 350 kW (V4), but they have yet to appear in the country. Furthermore, their nominal capacity is still only about half as good as that of Huawei’s.