Elliot Richards from the Fully Charged Show visited Greater Bay Technology in Guangzhou to examine GAC's fast-charging tech, which is said to be able to charge the Aion V Plus car's battery from 0 percent to 80 percent in just eight minutes.

Fully Charged got to do a charge test of the 3C battery in the Aion V Plus, which claimed to take about 15 minutes to charge from 0% to 80%, and only 10 minutes to charge from 30% to 80%. The Aion V Plus went from 29% to 80% battery in only 10 minutes, which is really fast.

GAC says that this extreme fast-charging (XFC) won't damage the battery. It guarantees the battery for 1 million kilometers (621,000 miles) and over 1,600 XFC cycles. After that point, the automaker claims the battery will see only 5 percent degradation. As Elliott points out, the car will definitely fall apart before the battery. 

Incidentally, GAC is also developing 6C batteries, which should charge from 0 to 80% in 8 minutes and from 30 to 80% in 5 minutes. 

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GAC Aion V Plus is an upgraded variant of the Aion V crossover. The new model will be equipped with drive motors that have a maximum power of 165kW and 200kW. The cruising range is 500 km, 600 km and 702 km respectively. There are four battery packs available with different capacities: 71.8 kWh, 72.3 kWh, 80 kWh or 95.8 kWh.

Source: Fully Charged

Евгений Ушаков
Evgenii Ushakov
15 years driving