BYD will have its first eight 1,500 kW Flash Charging stations in Spain installed before the end of the year but does not know whether all of them will be operating, Director General for Spain and Portugal Alberto de Aza said.
“We are in the administrative process for installation, and before the end of 2026 we will at least have them installed,” de Aza told the Spanish outlet Motor.es in an interview published on Wednesday.
“I don’t know if all of them will be operational, because the administrative process is quite complex, but we will have them installed,” he said.
The eight stations are the first of 300 that BYD and its premium brand Denza plan to build in Spain by the end of 2027, alongside 50 in Portugal.
The interview was conducted at the opening of the new facilities of BYD dealer Automóviles Sánchez in Zaragoza.
A Permitting Backlog
Eight stations would be 2.7% of the Spanish target.
Spain had 56,682 operational public charging points at the end of June, according to carmakers’ association ANFAC.
A further 17,821 points were installed but not yet in service, 23.9% of the 74,503 installed in total, and the number had risen from the previous quarter.
“Bureaucratic processing must be sped up, and reducing these activation times must become a priority in order to take full advantage of the investments already made,” ANFAC Director General José López-Tafall said when the association published the figures on July 2.
Before a charger can be switched on in Spain, its operator typically needs access and connection permits from the power distributor, municipal works and activity licences, registration of the electrical installation with the regional government, inspections and a supply contract, TestCoches reported.
BYD’s stations should in principle be easier to connect than conventional ultra-fast chargers because they draw little power from the grid.
“Only 100 kW is needed from the grid, and the battery provides the rest,” de Aza said, referring to the batteries built into each station.
Each unit stores energy in two 185 kWh battery packs and draws between 100 kW and 560 kW from the grid, BYD UK said in August.
The Leganés Demonstration
BYD demonstrated its first Flash Charging unit in Spain at a Denza dealership in Leganés, in Madrid’s Ciudad del Automóvil, during the brand’s Spanish launch at the end of June.
A Denza Z9 GT with a 122.49 kWh battery charged from 10% to 97% in 8 minutes and 51 seconds, which BYD said was the fastest charge achieved in Europe.
De Aza said on Wednesday that BYD had presented the first charger and carried out test charges in Madrid “about a month ago”.
The Spanish launch took place three months ago. There is no evidence the Leganés unit is open to the public.
Each Flash Charging unit has two connectors and can deliver up to 1,500 kW to one car or 1,000 kW each to two cars charging at the same time, according to BYD UK.
BYD said at the Spanish launch that the network would work with cars of any brand using a CCS2 connector and would charge less than €0.50 ($0.57) per kWh.
The Denza Z9 GT, whose fully electric version starts at €115,000 ($130,600), is the only model on sale in Spain that can use the full power.
BYD-brand cars now sold in Spain, from the Dolphin to the Sealion 7, use the first-generation Blade battery and charge at their usual maximum rates.
BYD vehicles arriving from the first quarter of 2027 will carry the second-generation Blade battery and support ultra-fast charging, de Aza said.
A Plan That Keeps Growing
BYD first set out an Iberian network in November 2025.
BYD said then it was preparing a network of 200 ultra-fast chargers with up to 1,000 kW of power on the Iberian Peninsula, to be ready around “the end of 2026 or the first half of 2027”.
In April 2026, when Denza launched in Europe in Paris, BYD planned 6,000 Flash Charging stations outside China over the following 12 months, 3,000 of them in Europe, Autocar reported.
At the Denza launch in Madrid at the end of June, BYD raised its Iberian plan to 350 stations, 300 in Spain and 50 in Portugal, before the end of 2027.
The official release placed them within a target of 6,000 stations outside China by the end of 2027, 3,000 of them in Europe.
On Wednesday, de Aza described “a plan for 3,000 next year in Europe and, in Spain, 300.”
BYD’s UK timetable has also shifted. On June 11, BYD UK said 300 chargers were planned in Britain “by the end of 2026.”
On August 14, it said it planned to install 300 “within the next 12 months.” BYD has not announced a Flash Charging site in Portugal.
10,000 in China
In China, BYD opened its 10,000th Flash Charging station on August 28, up from 4,239 when it launched the system on March 5.
It aims to have 20,000 by the end of 2026.
BYD opened its 2,000th highway station on September 24, when its network had 11,586 stations in 341 cities, the company said.
Geely unveiled a charger rated at 2,250 kW on September 23, although the Zeekr 001 and Lynk & Co 10 reach a peak of 1,100 kW on it.
