China’s Highway EV Charging Hits 2.97 Million Sessions Over Holiday’s First 3 Days

The scale of the year-on-year jump in both sessions and energy dispensed points to highway fast-charging demand growing faster than the network itself, since the operator count on the monitoring platform barely moved. That gap is the real story: utilization is being pushed onto existing sites during peak travel windows, which is where queueing and reliability pressures surface first. Whether holiday peaks keep outrunning capacity additions, and how the network handles them, is the open question.