Australia’s fastest charging electric car, the Zeekr 7X, was launched in Australia in August and within three months, the brand has began mass deliveries of its 7X SUV with the number of orders surpassing 2,500.
The company has now shared the updated version of its 7X SUV with fast charging speeds of up to 632 kW, helping the car charge from 10-80% in under 10 minutes.
The video, shared by Thinkercar on X, shows a charging session at a Zeekr Power charging station with 800 kW chargers.
This sessions starts with the car being at 10% State of Charge (SoC), with 77 km of range left in the battery.
The charger starts charging, and within 15 seconds, the car exceeds the charging power of 600 kW, which is at a rate of almost 4,200 km of range being added every hour.
Within 5 minutes of the charging session, the charger added 340 km of range, with power being delivered still staying above 450 kW.
Getting to 80% in 9 minutes 37 seconds, and adding 562 km of CLTC range to the car. At that state of charge, the car now had 642 km of range.
Even at 80% State of Charge, the car was charging at over 330 kW, which is more than the peak charging power of any non-Zeekr passenger vehicle available in the Australian market.
For comparison, currently, the fastest charging non-Zeekr cars in Australia can charge at peak speeds of around 250 kW, except the new Porsche Taycan and Macan, which have real-world charging speeds of under 300 kW.
Earlier this year, real-world charging test by Kyle, a YouTuber from the US, did a charging test in China where the 7X charging speeds approached 470 kW, helping the car get from 10-80% in under 10 minutes.
The latest test showed an improvement with peak charging speeds exceeding 630 kW when the state of charge was around 15%.
This improvement is likely due to the updated 900 V electrical architecture found in the new Zeekr 001 shooting brake and the tested version of the Zeekr 7X. The current version offers 800 V architecture, which is still the fastest charging car in the country.
In April this year, Zeekr also set a new benchmark and announced that it will launch the world’s first 1,200 kW charging station with liquid-cooled charging.
The latest generation of Zeekr Power chargers will have the highest peak power delivery per plug, which will be the start of Megawatt charging for passenger EVs.
Zeekr currently operates over 1,000 charging stations with 4,000 chargers in China and has plans to expand that network to over 10,000 chargers by the end of next year.
With many more ultra-fast-charging vehicles being developed, such as the Zeekr 001, Zeekr 7X and Zeekr 007, it’s only a matter of time before fast-charging solutions offer a faster charging time than filling up an ICE vehicle in Australia.
Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.