3,300 cars per day!
Shell has opened a huge fast-charging plaza in China, where up to 258 cars can charge simultaneously.
We recently learned that Dutch gas stations are somewhat limited in installing fast chargers, but in China Shell is apparently allowed to go all out. Shell calls the fast-charging station its largest in the world, but this could also be the largest fast-charging plaza in the world. The Shell Recharge chargers are lined up here in several long rows. In total there are no fewer than 258 publicly accessible fast chargers. Shell built the station in collaboration with BYD Electric Vehicle Investment, the same BYD that is also responsible for a large part of the electric cars in China.
The station is located near Shenzhen, a city with approximately the same population as the whole of the Netherlands, near the border with Hong Kong. The charging station is located 2.5 kilometers from Shenzhen airport and was already visited by an average of 3,300 EVs per day in the last test phase. The chargers are under a cover covered with solar panels, which produces 300,000 kWh of electricity per year, according to Shell. That is a lot, but in total it is a pittance: if those 3,300 cars charge an average of 30 kWh (a very safe assumption), 99,000 kWh are already used every day. If we calculate this over 365 days, we arrive at over 36 million kWh per year, or 36 gigawatt hours.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl