BYD doubled its 1,500kW charging network in five months and wants to double it again by December

BYD opened its 10,000th Flash Charging station on 28 August, doubling the network in under five months, with each connector rated at up to 1,500kW. European rules require a charging pool on the core road network to deliver 400kW in total this year, rising to 600kW by 2027.

BYD opened its 10,000th Flash Charging station in Shenzhen on 28 August, CnEVPost reported. The network has doubled in under five months.

Each connector delivers up to 1,500kW. A second-generation Blade battery goes from 10% to 97% in nine minutes on one, which is BYD’s own figure for its own newest cars.

The target for the year is 20,000. That means about 80 new stations a day against the 34 a day it has managed since April, InsideEVs calculated.

Six months of operation produced usable numbers. The network delivered 210 million kWh to 1.83 million drivers, and nearly a third of them were not driving a BYD.