Several expressway service areas in south China's Guangdong Province have significantly expanded their charging infrastructure to meet the growing demand for long-distance travel using electric vehicles (EVs), introducing innovative solutions such as mobile charging robots and volunteer service teams.
As people across the country return home from their Spring Festival travels, the Yayao Service Area on Guangdong's Foshan-Kaiping Expressway has been bustling with activity.
Motorists charge up their vehicles either at supercharging piles or using mobile charging robots -- portable power banks that have been proven especially useful during peak traffic hours.
Currently, volunteers manually move the robots to the cars, but some users are already anticipating a future where they could provide a fully automatic charging experience.
"Having this mobile charging robot is great. It would be even better if I could just scan a code and have it follow me to my parking spot to charge my car. That would be the most convenient," said an NEV driver.
China's expressway travelers welcome mobile EV chargers
