BYD is preparing to bring its megawatt “Flash Charging” network, which can add about 250 miles (400 km) of range in 5 minutes, to Canada – the first confirmed deployment in North America.
The plan was revealed through a new BYD job posting in Toronto for a manager tasked with executing “BYD’s flash charging network expansion strategy and business growth across Canada.”
BYD unveiled its 1,000 kW Flash Charging system alongside the 1,000-volt Super e-Platform in March 2025, and it has already upgraded it to 1,500 kW with the second-generation Blade battery earlier this year – more than 3 times the power of anything deployed in North America today.
The automaker has built over 5,700 Flash Charging stations in China in about a year, and as we reported earlier today, it is now deploying 2.4 times more charging power per month than Tesla adds to its Supercharger network.
But when BYD announced its overseas Flash Charging rollout in March, the list covered Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. North America was nowhere to be found.
