China: World's first 100 MW charging station for electric trucks launched

China has officially opened the world's first megawatt supercharging station for heavy-duty electric vehicles. The new complex, built on the basis of Huawei technologies, has become a breakthrough in the development of infrastructure for electric transport and a symbol of large-scale electrification of heavy logistics.

The design capacity of the plant is 100 megawatts. It consists of 18 heavy-duty chargers with a capacity of 1.44 MW each and 108 liquid-cooled stations with a capacity of 600 kW. This fleet of equipment allows servicing up to 700 trucks per day, providing a total charging capacity of more than 300 thousand kilowatt-hours.

Photovoltaic panels with a total capacity of about 1 MW and two intelligent energy storage units with wind and liquid cooling with a capacity of 215 kW are installed on the territory. The integrated solution "solar generation-storage-charging" allows the station to generate up to 5 thousand kWh of green electricity daily.

Huawei's megawatt supercharging technology supports the "3.5 C" system, which provides the principle of "five minutes of charging — one hundred kilometers of mileage". For truck owners, this means significant savings: operating costs are reduced by about $ 0.21 per kilometer, which gives an economic effect of up to $ 21 thousand per year and allows you to recoup the cost of equipment in about three years.

For station operators, the introduction of a new charging format increases operational efficiency by more than 15%. Mass electrification of cargo transportation will lead to a significant reduction in carbon emissions: only one station will reduce their volume by 45 thousand tons annually.

The opening of the 100 MW charging facility demonstrates China's transition to large-scale decarbonization of the transport sector. The station has become an important element of the national strategy for the development of clean energy and electric transport in the heavy logistics segment.