Comments on: China’s EV charging network hits 16.7 million units, records 7.71 billion kWh monthly usage https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/27/chinas-ev-charging-network-hits-16-7-million-units-records-7-71-billion-kwh-monthly-usage/ China Auto News Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: MJE https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/27/chinas-ev-charging-network-hits-16-7-million-units-records-7-71-billion-kwh-monthly-usage/#comment-639567 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:47:00 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=236276#comment-639567 In reply to Liu Miao.

I had put 8kwh per km, instead of 8km per kWh. How silly of me.

]]> By: MJE https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/27/chinas-ev-charging-network-hits-16-7-million-units-records-7-71-billion-kwh-monthly-usage/#comment-639566 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:44:07 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=236276#comment-639566 In reply to Liu Miao.

Thank you for your correction. It now makes more sense.

]]> By: Liu Miao https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/27/chinas-ev-charging-network-hits-16-7-million-units-records-7-71-billion-kwh-monthly-usage/#comment-639565 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:35:42 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=236276#comment-639565 In reply to MJE.

One kilowatt-hour of electricity can power an electric vehicle for approximately five kilometers, so for 8 billion kWh it will be 40 billion km. According to the data in the text, there are two charging piles for every five vehicles, indicating that China has around forty million electric vehicles in total.

]]> By: MJE https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/27/chinas-ev-charging-network-hits-16-7-million-units-records-7-71-billion-kwh-monthly-usage/#comment-639564 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:28:58 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=236276#comment-639564 Well these numbers suggest to me that most charging must be done at home.

The total amount of energy 8b kWh monthly translates into 1b km travelled which is less than 40m km a day. If there are 80m EVs ( 5×16) that means on average each gets power from these chargers of less than 0.5km travel a day. As I estimate the real average travel perhaps 100 times this eg 50km a day, that means these chargers provide about 1% of the electricity with presumably the rest from home charging and swap stations.

]]> By: GustavoMan627 https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/27/chinas-ev-charging-network-hits-16-7-million-units-records-7-71-billion-kwh-monthly-usage/#comment-639552 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:03:34 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=236276#comment-639552 The scale of China, Chinese market is mind blowing!

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