Five-minute charging is already shipping. Is your site ready?
Megawatt-class charging is in production in China today: 1000 A terminals, batteries that take 10 to 80% in under four minutes, and a connector standard built for 1.2 MW. Those vehicles are being delivered to customers today. eProjects designs and builds charging sites now so that when the hardware lands, it is a swap-out, not a rebuild. In a few years todays chargers will need upgrading, smart design means that job will be quick and easy.
What is already in production overseas.
Four developments define the next generation of DC charging. All four are manufacturer-stated figures from vehicles and hardware shipping now.
BYD Super e-Platform
1000 V full-domain architecture with 1500 V silicon-carbide power chips, peaking at 1 MW (1000 A). BYD claims around 400 km of range added in five minutes. It runs on dedicated liquid-cooled Flash Charging terminals rated to 1360 kW, with dual-gun charging and intelligent voltage boost so vehicles can still draw more from lower-powered existing chargers.
BYD Blade Battery 2.0
Charges 10–70% in five minutes and 10–97% in nine minutes. Critically for retrofit, it is designed to charge 30–50% faster on existing, non-Flash infrastructure, and holds fast-charge performance in the cold, reaching 97% in twelve minutes from minus 30°C.
CATL Shenxing, 3rd generation
10–80% in three minutes forty-four seconds, and 10–98% in six minutes twenty-seven seconds. CATL is the world’s largest EV battery maker and supplies Tesla among others, so this is where the volume market is heading, not a single-brand outlier.
ChaoJi / GB-T ultra high power
China’s next-generation DC standard, approved in 2023 and rolling out through 2026. It supports up to 1500 V and 800 A for power delivery beyond 1.2 MW, is backward compatible with existing DC fast charging, and is harmonised with Japan’s CHAdeMO 3.1, which makes it the likely bridge standard for global ultra-fast hardware.
Specify for 2030, install for today
The vehicles arrive before the infrastructure
BYD is already one of the largest EV brands in Australia and its next platform is built around megawatt charging. Sites specified to today’s 50 kW assumptions will be the ones turning those vehicles away.
Retrofitting supply costs several times more
Conduit, pits, switchroom space and spare transformer capacity are cheap while the ground is open. Adding them later means trenching a live site, a fresh network application and a second shutdown.
Faster charging changes your site economics
If a vehicle takes five minutes instead of forty, one bay serves many times the traffic. Fewer chargers, less land, higher utilisation, but only if the supply behind them was sized for it.
Five things to build in now
Each of these is inexpensive at construction and expensive to add later. None of them commits you to a particular brand or connector.
Figures quoted are manufacturer claims from overseas launches. Australian availability, certification and network approval will vary. Confirm scope with eProjects.
Megawatt charging is an infrastructure job
At a megawatt, the charger is the easy part. The project is supply, transformers, protection and network negotiation, which is what we have done as a commercial electrical contractor since 1999.
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Answers before you enquire
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Is megawatt charging legal and available in Australia today?
Not as a mass-market product. The hardware exists and is deployed at scale in China; local supply, certification and network approval are still catching up. What you can do today is build the site so that when it lands, installing it is a hardware swap rather than a rebuild.
Does this mean we should delay our charger project?
No. The opposite. Install what your vehicles need now, but specify the supply, ducting and switchroom for what is coming. The incremental cost at construction is small; the retrofit cost is not.
Will these Chinese standards ever reach Sydney?
ChaoJi is designed to be backward compatible and is harmonised with CHAdeMO 3.1, and the vehicles arriving here are built on these platforms. Our position is to keep sites connector-agnostic rather than bet on one outcome.
Can our existing site be upgraded?
Usually, at a cost. We assess incoming supply, switchboard capacity, cable routes and available space, then give you a staged path, including what can be done now cheaply to keep the option open.
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