Xpeng, Charge+ launch fast EV chargers at KL Eco City – up to 350 kW DC, RM1/kWh, open to all brands

Xpeng and Charge+ person announced a strategical concern to make a cross-border supercharging network successful Southeast Asia that volition connection up to 480 kW DC charging, with the archetypal 4 of astatine slightest 20 planned sites present unrecorded astatine Singapore’s Royal Square Novena and Downtown East, Thailand’s One Bangkok and Malaysia’s KL Eco City.

According to the Charge+ app, the KL Eco City tract (located astatine Level LL) has six chargers – 2 350 kW DC, 2 250 kW DC and 2 200 kW DC – each priced astatine RM1 per kWh and unfastened to each car brands. Xpeng owners are acceptable to get discounts crossed Charge+’s Southeast Asia chargers for 3 years, arsenic good arsenic further discounts astatine the Xpeng-Charge+ superchargers.

Charge+ said successful its merchandise that Xpeng owners volition soon person seamless entree to its chargers crossed Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand done the Xpeng app, and the functionality is scheduled for integration into the vehicle’s dashboard by year-end, including commencement and halt charging connected the app.

Moving forward, Xpeng and Charge+ are acceptable to further turn the supercharging web successful the existing countries arsenic good arsenic grow to Indonesia, with deployment astatine high-traffic spots including commercialized hubs, retail malls and road remainder stops crossed the region.

The Singapore-based EV charging solutions supplier is gathering a 5,000-km DC charging road crossed Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, which it says is the longest EV charging backbone successful the region.

This makes bully connected Xpeng’s announcement successful March that it would open a DC accelerated charging web successful ASEAN to rival Tesla’s Supercharger network, by moving with section complaint constituent operators (CPOs). Both the G6 and X9 are 800V EVs truthful they tin marque amended usage of accelerated chargers – astatine 451 kW DC, the soon-to-be-launched G6 facelift tin complaint from 10-80% successful 12 minutes, portion the X9 does it successful 20 minutes careless of variant (84.5-kWh artillery maxes astatine 283 kW; 101.5-kWh artillery tin swallow 317 kW).

The station Xpeng, Charge+ motorboat accelerated EV chargers astatine KL Eco City – up to 350 kW DC, RM1/kWh, unfastened to each brands appeared archetypal connected Paul Tan's Automotive News.