the company is targeting 2,000 1.5mW Flash Charging stations across Europe before 2026 comes to a close

Wow 1.5 mW, I wonder if they use 1 cm^2 solar cells to feed them.

But seriously how did nobody catch this.

How does BYD make money on this

The same way Tesla makes money with their own supercharger network - they sell cars and electric via the chargers.

The reason BYD is building these specific chargers is because their future cars will be able to use them to charge at insane speeds but only if a charger can handle it. Right now most "fast" chargers max out at about 350kW, even the bran d new ones. There's a few omising 400kW or even 500kW but BYD is marketing cars that can do 1000kW.

They need some chargers to exist so they can sell those cars, it's better for them to start building it than waiting years for the rest of the industry to catch up.

1.5 Milliwatts? Are these meant for ant cars?

Does charging that fast reduce the life of the batteries?

Well, 1.5 milliwatts doesn't sound a lot... But seems like for TECH(sic!)radar somehow it does.

I want to believe BYD. But my Civic is 20 years old and still idles like a purring cat. I would like 1 year/£1k spent and I don't have faith im getting that in a BYD. 20k for a Dolphin Surf is a minimum 20 year car, and I just don't see it.

Granted my Civic wasnt bought new, it was brought for £1300 a year ago and I could probably get another 100k miles out of it. Im almost certain that the new market is outside £1k/year budget, bunch of old Leafs around though.