Charging

By 2025, China will have 80 percent coverage of fast-charging stations on its highways, Wang Zhiqing, vice minister of transport, said Friday.

Shandong has a total population of 101.5 million, accounting for 7.19 percent of the country's population.

Tesla's Supercharger production facility in China was officially completed on August 20, according to a report by the Beijing News on Tuesday.

State Grid, the world's largest utility company, is also one of the largest operators of charging piles in China, and it is rapidly expanding its reach.

On the company's A480 supercharger, vehicles can be charged at a high rate of 6C, adding 200 kilometers of range in five minutes and charging from 0 to 80 percent in eight minutes.

Nio announced Monday that it has opened a new charging line in southwestern China under its Power Up Plan, allowing owners to drive their all-electric vehicles to more places.

GAC Aion will officially launch its A480 supercharger matched with graphene-based fast-charging batteries on August 30, cls.cn quoted people familiar with the matter as saying Friday.

Sinopec Group, the Chinese fossil-fuel giant, has built a total of 570 charging stations and battery swap stations.

Residents of Shandong's central urban areas will have public charging and battery swap facilities within a radius of fewer than 5 kilometers.

More than 400,000 public charging piles in China now support payments using UnionPay Mobile QuickPass, covering more than 60 percent of all public charging piles.