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BYD Says One Flash Charger Served Up to 74 Cars in a Day as Children Swing on Cable in Nanning

BYD attributed a one-day maximum of up to 74 vehicles to a Flash Charger during China’s National Day holiday. Separately, video from Nanning showed children swinging from a suspended charging cable.
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BYD says one of its Flash Chargers served up to 74 vehicles in a single day during China’s National Day holiday. Separately, video reported from Nanning showed children swinging from a charger’s suspended cable. The 74-car figure is a company-attributed maximum, not an independently verified record; BYD said it sent staff to inspect the Nanning site after the video surfaced.

What happened in Nanning

Video recorded on October 2, 2026, at a public charging forecourt in Nanning, Guangxi, showed two children gripping suspended charging connectors and swinging with their feet off the ground while adults filmed, according to CarNewsChina. CNN Brasil also reported BYD’s response and noted that the suspended equipment was not designed to support children’s weight.

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BYD customer service said on October 4 that playing on charging equipment was prohibited, maintenance staff had been sent to inspect the station, and monitoring and physical inspections would be strengthened. The inspection’s findings have not been reported in the available coverage.

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What BYD’s 74-car figure does—and does not—show

GMT Eight reported on October 9, 2026, that BYD spokesperson Li Yunfei said the Flash Charging network handled more than 1.22 million vehicle sessions cumulatively over the National Day holiday, and that a single charger served up to 74 vehicles on one day. The report does not identify the charger, define a “vehicle session,” give the day’s energy delivered, or explain the basis for calling the figure a record. It is therefore best understood as BYD’s reported single-day maximum, not a verified comparison with other chargers.

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Network figures in other reports refer to different snapshots and measures. CarNewsChina reported 6,682 Flash Chargers across 321 Chinese cities in June 2026. Its October 2026 report cited more than 10,000 operational stations in China and BYD’s target of 20,000 by the end of 2026. The June charger count is historical, while the 20,000 figure is a target, not an achieved total.

Is a 1 MW charger the same as a 1.5 MW charger?

No. Reports distinguish the power BYD announced for compatible vehicles from the charger hardware’s stated theoretical ceiling. The Megawatt Flash Charger is associated with BYD’s Super e-Platform and uses a 1,000-volt architecture, liquid-cooled cables, and an overhead T-shaped rail with a spring mechanism. The rail supports the heavy cable, keeps it off the ground, and lets drivers move the connector.

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Figure What it refers to Qualification
Up to 1,000 kW (1 MW), at 1,000 V and 1,000 A Announced output for compatible vehicles Not a rate every vehicle can accept or sustain throughout a charging session, according to CNN Brasil.
1,500 kW and 1,500 A Theoretical capability of the charger hardware A hardware ceiling described in reporting, not a claim that every car receives this power; see CarNewsChina.

At the system’s March 2025 launch, BYD claimed its 1 MW chargers could add 400 kilometers of range in five minutes for its latest compatible EVs, as reported by the Associated Press. That is a company claim tied to compatible vehicles, not a general real-world guarantee. BYD founder Wang Chuanfu described the goal as making EV charging “as short as the refueling time for fuel vehicles”; that statement expresses the company’s ambition, not an equivalence for every charging session.

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Why swinging on the cable is unsafe

The video shows misuse of charging equipment; the reported concerns are a fall and possible damage to the cable or its support. The cable’s overhead suspension is designed to assist handling, not to act as a swing. CarNewsChina and EVmagazine discuss the engineering possibility that repeated bending or sideways force could harm internal cable components or suspension hardware without obvious external damage. Those are potential risks, not confirmed findings about the Nanning charger.

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No injury, electric shock, confirmed equipment damage, or later charging failure at the Nanning station has been reported in the cited coverage. The available reports do not establish that the cable was electrically live while docked, so there is no basis to claim that it was.

CarNewsChina and EVmagazine also describe Chinese standards GB/T 18487.1 and GB/T 20234, including mechanical test values such as 200–400 N tensile pulls and a 5,000 N drive-over compression test. Those secondary-source descriptions are not a complete safety assessment, and they do not establish that the standards test the specific overhead swinging load seen in the video.

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