Huawei’s megawatt charging enters heavy trucks — Beiben’s 3.5C option and the supplier’s platform play

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Huawei’s megawatt charging enters heavy trucks — Beiben’s 3.5C option and the supplier’s platform play

Huawei’s megawatt-level supercharging technology debuts in commercial vehicles through partners like Beiben (3.5C rate, ~15-minute charges on selected V5 models) — the tech giant’s charging platform becoming a supplier standard across Chinese truck brands.

2026-01 · WattTonne news desk · archive edition (compiled at relaunch, event date as shown)

Huawei's megawatt charging enters heavy trucks — Beiben's 3.5C option and the supplier's platform play
Electric trucks at fleet scale in China. Photo: SCMP

Huawei’s megawatt-level supercharging technology is entering heavy trucks through OEM partnerships: Beiben’s new V5 series offers Huawei megawatt charging at 3.5C rate on selected models — a claimed 15-minute charge for most of the pack — plus an ‘interconnected charging’ variant, making Beiben the first Chinese truck maker to ship both options per its launch statements.

Huawei’s role here is platform supplier, not truck maker: its liquid-cooled megawatt charging architecture (already deployed in Chinese passenger-EV supercharging networks) is being packaged for commercial vehicles across multiple brands — the same component-supplier position Bosch or ZF holds in Europe. If the architecture becomes the de facto Chinese standard for truck megawatt charging, it also becomes a candidate export standard as Chinese trucks go abroad.

For European readers: Huawei’s charging tech is unlikely to arrive directly (geopolitics), but its performance claims set the benchmark Chinese OEMs will quote — and its presence in China’s charging build (alongside ABB, Siemens, Kempower, Power Electronics globally) confirms that megawatt hardware is now a commodity layer, available from at least six major suppliers at 1 MW+.

Sources
  • beiben.cc (2026-01-09)
  • Industry reporting, compiled

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