BYD confirms Flash megawatt charging for Australia in game-changing knock out punch to rivals such as 2026 Zeekr 7X and Tesla Model Y

This Chinese brand’s latest announcement is a game-changer.

BYD’s luxury arm, Denza, has just announced it would be building its own Flash charging network in Australia, with the first sites at Denza dealers in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide ready to go at the end of the year.

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That’s almost four times the power of the most powerful electric charger in Australia, with the first of Ampcharger’s 400kW pylons recently installed at Sydney’s Eastern Creek.

The writing was on the wall for the ultra fast charging network coming to Australia with Denza’s local boss Mark Harland previously telling CarsGuide the brand was very interested in bringing it here.

The company had also trademarked the Flash branding in Australia.

BYD said it would be building the network in major cities, not rural areas.

Denza’s coming Z9 GT performance car will be the first vehicle to use the full capacity of the chargers.

Denza Australia claims the Z9 GT has a driving range of about 820km — according to the more lenient CLTC testing regime — so the charger could add about 400km of driving range in five minutes.

There are a growing number of BYD products in China that can take advantage of these chargers, which should trickle into Australia as the network comes online in the future.

Ultra fast charging is the new battleground for Chinese electric carmakers, with Geely also preparing to roll out megawatt charging in China.

Geely’s sub-brand Zeekr revealed its new charger recently, with peak charging power registered at 1100kW and maintaining more than 500kW after reaching 80 per cent charge.

The brand’s official testing data reveals it can charge a vehicle from 10 to 97 per cent in under nine minutes. Charging from 10-80 per cent takes a little over five minutes, while 10-70 per cent charges are under five minutes.

That makes it slightly faster than the BYD Flash chargers, but there is no word on if they will come to Australia in the near future.

For now BYD and Denza are the charging kings of Oz.