ZEEKR announced charging for electric vehicles with a capacity of 1.2 megavatts

The public premiere of high -speed terminals will be held at the end of April at the Shanghai Motor Show. The deployment of the network will begin before the end of the year, and BYD, DIDI and Huawei will be competitors.

BYD, in mid -March, representing a charging terminal with a capacity of 1 megavatts, a serious competitor appeared. The Zeekr brand announced that on April 23 at the Shanghai Motor Show, the station for 1.2 megawatts will show and in the second quarter they will begin to install them in China. Each station will have 10 forks and cables with a liquid cooling system that can withstand the currents necessary for charging an electric car for several minutes.

There are no details about Zeekr terminals yet, but BYD can be based on the supercharger. At peak power, they can add 2 kilometers every second, and 5 minutes of charging will give 400 additional kilometers. The company has already announced the installation of 4 thousand new charges throughout China and even launched sales of cars that can be charged with such power-it is the Han L and the Tang L crossover, using 1000-volt architecture.

Zeekr intends to become one of the pioneers of the “megawatt era” – but so far the company does not have a single model that could be charged with a power in Megavatts. And there have already been a lot of competitors. In addition to BYD, this is a taxi aggregator DIDI and Huawei, which will present its own 1.5 megavatt terminal for heavy trucks on April 22, providing a charging rate of 20 kilowatt hours per minute.

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