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Another megawatt-level charger enters China: 300 miles in 5 minutes

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Another megawatt-level charger enters China: 300 miles in 5 minutes

Chery has announced a 1.44 megawatt charging system, able to deliver 500km (311 miles) in 5 minutes. And it’s not even the fastest system available in China.

It’s become common knowledge at this point that Chinese EVs are the world’s state of the art, but the country isn’t sitting on its laurels, it’s still racing to compete with newer and better technology.

A case in point has been the country’s DC fast chargers, where we’ve seen a slew of announcements of new systems in just the last year.

BYD has a 1.5MW charger which it has already installed 10,000 of, Geely just announced a 2.2MW charger, and CATL has a hyper-fast charging battery.

The competition is so fierce that firms are starting to compete over seconds, not minutes of charging time.

Chery announced a 1.44MW charger that can add 500km (311miles) of range to a battery in 5 minutes, and can charge from 10-97% in 6 minutes and 50 seconds, as reported by CarNewsChina.

The numbers put it in league with the best of the best in the country. Per CarNewsChina’s accounting, the new Chery “Volt-Dragon” battery is the second-fastest at reaching 97% state of charge, 23 seconds behind CATL’s 6 minute, 27 second record time. FAW, Geely and BYD are all between 8 and 9 minutes for the same full charge metric.

Some other firms released times for charging in very cold or very warm weather, which Chery declined to release during its announcement.



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