{"id":209008,"date":"2025-03-18T08:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/chinas-byd-launches-ev-charging-system-it-says-works-nearly-as-fast-as-a-fill-up"},"modified":"2025-03-18T08:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:04:01","slug":"chinas-byd-launches-ev-charging-system-it-says-works-nearly-as-fast-as-a-fill-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/chinas-byd-launches-ev-charging-system-it-says-works-nearly-as-fast-as-a-fill-up","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s BYD launches EV charging system it says works nearly as fast as a fill up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-byd-launches-ev-charging-system-it-says-works-nearly-as-fast-as-a-fill-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGKOK (AP) \u2014 China\u2019s energy and auto giant BYD has announced an ultra fast EV charging system that it says is nearly as quick as a fill up at the pumps.<\/p>\n<p>BYD, China\u2019s largest EV maker, said Monday that its flash-chargers can provide a full charge for its latest EVs within five to eight minutes, similar to the amount of time needed to fill a fuel tank. It plans to build more than 4,000 of the new charging stations across China.<\/p>\n<p>Charging times and limited ranges have been a major factor constraining the switch from gas and diesel vehicles to EVs, though Chinese drivers have <a class=\"\" data-gtm-enhancement- href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-autos-evs-exports-3f5860634a1d146446dd0dd9e78c2abb\">embraced that change<\/a>, with sales of battery powered and hybrid vehicles jumping 40% last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK (AP) \u2014 China\u2019s energy and auto giant BYD has announced an ultra fast EV charging system that it says is nearly as quick as a fill up at the pumps. BYD, China\u2019s largest EV maker, said Monday that its flash-chargers can provide a full charge for its latest EVs within five to eight minutes, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}