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Megawatt Charging for Trucks
While passenger-car supercharging competes in minutes, commercial vehicles have reached megawatt scale. BAIC Foton unveiled a full-domain ecosystem linking light trucks, heavy trucks, stations and the grid, shifting the race from single devices to entire energy networks serving freight at scale.
Six-Minute Range
Foton's 8C ultra-fast light truck and megawatt heavy truck gain 100 km of range in six minutes. Its 800V architecture supports up to 1,000V, a 1.5 MW channel, 800A per gun and 1,600A dual-gun peak, with battery cycle life above 6,500 cycles for demanding trunk routes. Backed by over 3.5 million connected vehicles and 3 PB of daily data, Foton's network senses load hotspots nationwide.
Ecosystem and Microgrids
Foton formed a supercharge alliance with CATL, Sunwoda and TELD, planning 5,000 standardized hubs and merging ultra-fast batteries, liquid cooling, V2G and AI scheduling into one system. Solar-storage-charging smart stations fuse PV, storage and load into dispatchable microgrids, a model Yantai can pair with community slow chargers.