Huawei rolls out ultrafast EV chargers in China, taking on Tesla

'1 km-per-second' stations cater to increasingly advanced battery tech

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An electric vehicle uses a Huawei-developed ultrafast charger at a public charging station in Shenzhen in December. (Photo by Shizuka Tanabe)

SHIZUKA TANABE, Nikkei staff writer

GUANGZHOU -- Huawei Technologies plans to install 100,000 fast EV-charging stations in China this year, including units more than twice as fast as Tesla's, providing infrastructure that could give a boost to fast-charging vehicles from Chinese automakers.

A charging station advertising 1 kilometer of range for every second of charging can be found in the parking lot of a shopping center in Huawei's home city of Shenzhen, with "600kW" shown beneath the Huawei logo.

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