SAIC-GM, General Motors’ main joint venture in China, has just signed a cooperation agreement with Tesla China and announced that its electric vehicles will be able to access the Supercharger network in the Asian country.
The automaker has reached a cooperation agreement with Tesla China that seeks to jointly create efficient and convenient charging network sharing services to improve the experience of its customers in the country, which will involve the use of the Supercharger network by electric vehicles customers from the Buick, Cadillac and Chevrolet brands. The company announced that the alliance will begin this year.
SAIC-GM becomes China’s first joint venture to launch charging network interconnection cooperation with Tesla in China, further strengthening its vehicle power supply system by expanding customer options beyond its own network of charging stations. So far, SAIC-GM has established 52 charging stations of its own, with a total of 246 charging terminals in operation.
For its part, Tesla China has opened 10 exclusive flagship Supercharger stations for its vehicle portfolio and more than 200 destination charging stations in mainland China that can be used by some non-Tesla brand vehicles. As Tesla gradually expands the reach of its charging network in mainland China in the future, SAIC-GM EVs will be able to use all the interconnected charging stations.
Notably, SAIC-GM’s cooperation agreement with Tesla China comes five months after GM and Tesla announced the strategic partnership in North America to provide GM electric vehicle users access to the Tesla Supercharger Network – with more than 12,000 charging points. However, the alliance with Tesla will materialize first in the Asian country, which has the largest electric vehicle market in the world.
SAIC-GM electric vehicles will begin using Tesla China’s Supercharger network starting later this year, when customers of the joint venture will have access to register and log in to dedicated applications that both companies will launch to deploy the service. In addition to Tesla China, the company is currently cooperating with six other major charging operators to deploy 500,000 charging points in about 320 cities across the country.
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