What Geely actually launched
The Chinese group (HKEX: 0175) presented its fifth-generation Geely Smart Charging Station with a peak of 2,250 kW, against the 1,500 kW maximum single-gun output of BYD's flash charging pile. At the centre is Xingrui PowerMind, an energy AI model co-developed with Chinese startup StepFun, which coordinates vehicle, battery, pile, cloud, grid and on-site storage. It predicts battery temperature up to 30 seconds ahead and repowers the strategy on the fly, aiming to keep average cell temperature below 55 °C and peak below 65 °C.
There is a five-point liquid-cooling chain — storage battery, pile, cable, charging port and pack — which Geely calls an industry first. And to answer the obvious question about fast charging eating battery life, Geely adds lithium-ion pulse restoration: micro-pulse currents that reactivate lithium plating at the negative electrode. Combined with the AI management, that is claimed to extend cycle life by up to 20%. We heard a similar promise when we wrote about Geely's 2.2 MW charging announcement — this is the productised version.
Our maths: 8C average, not 12C
Let us translate Geely's own test numbers into C-rates, because that is where marketing meets physics.
- 10 → 70% in 270 seconds: 60% of capacity in 0.075 h = 8.0C average.
- 10 → 97% in 520 seconds: 87% of capacity in 0.1444 h = 6.0C average.
That is genuinely quick, but it is not 12C. The 12C figure is a peak that, in a well-managed pack, lasts seconds to tens of seconds. For context, when we did the same arithmetic on Sunwoda's 10–97% in 9 minutes claim, we got 5.8C average against a marketed 15C. Geely's 6.0C over the same SOC window is a hair better than Sunwoda and clearly ahead of BYD's 5 minutes to 70%.
Now the power figure. On a 100 kWh pack, an 8C average equals roughly 800 kW — 60 kWh in 4.5 minutes. A 12C peak on that same 100 kWh pack would be 1,200 kW. To reach 2,250 kW at 12C you would need a pack of about 187.5 kWh. No production Zeekr or Lynk & Co carries that today. The sensible reading: 2,250 kW is a station-level number shared across guns and buffered by on-site storage, not a continuous single-car figure. We saw the same pattern when we ran the maths on Sunwoda's 10,000-station plan and arrived at 573 kW average per station.
The value pack: 6C for affordable cars
Buried under the flagships is the more interesting item. Geely's next-generation Ultra Short Blade Battery, aimed at cheaper models, uses in-house laser welding to cut heat during charging by 10% while lifting peak rate to 6C. If that lands on a €25,000-class car in Europe, it matters more to buyers than any 2,250 kW demo — a 6C peak on a 60 kWh pack is 360 kW, which is already beyond what most European HPC sites will give you today.
Europe: our fastest flagship is 480 kW
The gap to European hardware is the real story here. Our report on EnBW's 12-point flagship park in Karlsruhe with 480 kW XCharge C7 hardware describes what a top-tier European site looks like right now: 480 kW per point, 12 points, one grid connection. Geely is talking about a single gun at more than four times that. In Europe, the megawatt class exists mainly as MCS for trucks — the same theme as CATL and Octopus pushing truck battery swapping. On the passenger-car side, a 2,250 kW station means a substation-grade grid connection, serious on-site buffering and a liquid-cooled cable heavy enough that handling becomes an engineering problem in itself.
4.5 minutes is fast. €/100 km is what you pay
Speed does not fix cost. Take 60 kWh delivered in 4.5 minutes and charge it at €0.59/kWh on a European motorway HPC — that is €35.40. A Zeekr 001-class car consuming around 20 kWh/100 km covers roughly 300 km on that, giving €11.80 per 100 km. A 7.0 l/100 km petrol car at €1.60/l comes out at €11.20 per 100 km. You can run the same numbers against our database of 483 European locations, where the cheapest sites sit far below motorway rates — see the cheapest Superchargers list and the full charging map. The conclusion is boring but useful: ultra-fast charging is a convenience purchase, not a saving.
The open questions
BYD says it will open its 2,000th highway flash charging station on 24 September, had 10,000 built by 28 August and still targets 20,000 by year end. Sunwoda promises 10,000 megawatt-class stations by the end of 2027. Geely has announced the technology and shown a demo — it has not published a station rollout target, a list of models that get the Shendun Golden Battery, or an independent test. Until a third party — ideally someone running Bjørn Nyland's protocol, which you can model in our real-world range calculator — repeats the 10–70% run on a cold pack, treat 4 minutes 30 seconds as a best case, not a specification.
If you are shopping and want to know what fast charging costs you, plug your own tariff and consumption into the charging cost calculator. That number will not appear in any press release.
Source: https://cnevpost.com/2026/09/23/geely-takes-on-byd-charging/
