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The last few metres
The 'last few metres' of autonomous refuelling is being solved unmanned. Shenzhen's Shunshunchong Baoshi Road mega-charging station is China's first fully-unmanned auto-charging demo: L4 Robotaxis with 34 sensors achieve vehicle-stall-site-cloud four-layer coordination, self-parking into the bay and letting a robotic arm or auto-gun plug/unplug—no attendant. It marks charging moving from 'human finds stall, human plugs' to 'car comes itself, charges itself'.
More players in
More players enter the lane. TELD with Neolix launched 'LaiDian Island 1', using an AI agent to dispatch auto-refuelling, with a '100-city plan'—300 islands, 50k charging robots, serving 300k unmanned vehicles; Rocsys' M1 rail robotic arm landed May 2026, moving on rails across bays with 99.9% plug success; Tesla builds dedicated V4 sites for Robotaxi in Arizona and elsewhere. From robotic arms to charging robots, auto-refuel shifts from demo to scaled operation.
Yantai's horizon
For a city like Yantai, unmanned refuelling is still 'future tense', but the trend is clear. Dongdian Huichong's community and public charging notes auto-refuel's essence is 'freeing O&M labour from the stall side'—consistent with estate 'unified-build-serve' and fewer manual patrols. Owners needn't worry now, but can expect: when auto-refuel matures, public sites' availability and overnight unattended capability rise another notch, making the 'last kilometre' refuel smarter.