Oct 21, 2026 | Charging & Infrastructure, Electric Vehicles
Over China’s seven-day National Day holiday, Nio’s battery-swap network performed 1,192,221 swaps and BYD’s megawatt flash-charging network delivered about 1.22 million charges. The two totals are within three percent of each other. That near-tie is...
Oct 15, 2026 | Charging & Infrastructure
Over China’s eight-day National Day holiday, electric vehicles drew 163 million kilowatt-hours from expressway chargers — up 51 percent on a year earlier, and a record 28 million kWh on October 1 alone. The network carried it. At a handful of service areas,...
Oct 10, 2026 | Battery Technology, Charging & Infrastructure
A battery-buffered fast charger has a battery pack built into the cabinet, so it can hand a car far more power than its grid connection supplies. FreeWire’s Boost Charger 200 delivers 200 kW from an electrical service rated at 27 kW. The 160 kWh battery inside...
Oct 1, 2026 | Charging & Infrastructure
EVgo will preview a 750kW public fast charger in 2027, and it says the machine can refill “the fastest-charging EVs currently sold in the US in around 10 minutes.” The fastest-charging EV currently sold in the US peaks at 600 kilowatts, for a minute or two...
Oct 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Charging & Infrastructure, Electric Vehicles
Geely is buying 30% of Nio’s battery-swapping arm at a valuation of about 16 billion yuan ($2.2 billion), and the market is reading it as the moment car battery-swapping finally cleared the problem that has always defined it: nobody else’s cars can use the...
Sep 16, 2026 | Battery Technology, Charging & Infrastructure, Electric Vehicles, Trucks
At IAA Transportation 2026 in Hanover, Europe’s electric trucks stopped competing on range. MAN’s new eTGX claims up to 720 km on a charge, Volvo’s FH Aero Electric up to 700, and BYD’s ETT 44 around 600 — roughly a full legal day’s...
