Over 2.3 billion interregional trips recorded during Chinese Spring Festival holiday

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By Song Lin (Global Times) 11:15, February 05, 2025

In East China's Jiangsu Province, building on more than 1,300 existing charging piles along highways, State Grid's local branch temporarily deployed 16 mobile charging vehicles and 12 mobile charging piles at high-traffic service areas. These resources are flexibly allocated based on real-time traffic, effectively easing the "range anxiety" of NEV drivers.

In recent years, China has made significant strides in both the quality and quantity of its charging infrastructure. While earlier charging piles were slow, taking seven to eight hours to fully charge a vehicle, today's stations are equipped with fast or ultra-fast charging capabilities, Zhang Xiang, secretary general of the International Intelligent Vehicle Engineering Association, told the Global Times on Tuesday.

The more charging piles there are, the better the experience for drivers on long road trips, which is why an increasing number of people chose to travel using electric vehicles during the Spring Festival season, Zhang said.

China has established the world's largest charging network, with 12.8 million charging piles and 4,443 battery-swapping stations.

Additionally, fast charging technology that can charge 80 percent of a vehicle's battery in just 15 minutes has been rolled out for mass production, China's Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Zhang Yunming told a press conference on January 21.

The number of NEVs in China has grown exponentially, driving a corresponding surge in demand for charging facilities. Against this backdrop, an increasing number of industry players have entered the new sector, Zhang Xiang said.

China's leading electric car maker Nio told the Global Times on Tuesday that the company has established 3,106 battery swapping stations nationwide, including 964 along national highways. It has also set up 4,346 charging stations with 25,434 charging piles.

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