China Unicom to build charging and charging stations, Tesla charging problem

China Unicom will sign the strategic cooperation agreement with Tesla, the two sides will jointly in 120 cities nationwide 400 Unicom business Hall construction destination charge pile, and in the country 20 cities to build super charging station.

According to Tesla's plan, China should be the second largest market in their minds after the United States. But "charging hard" is a big obstacle to Tesla's development in China. At present, Tesla free for owners to provide wall-mounted charger, and the construction of a charging pile. To date, Tesla's destination in China has about 50 rechargeable piles, distributed in 17 cities. In conjunction with China Unicom, Tesla is hoping to push the construction of the charging pile to a nationwide scale and start the construction of the super charging station. There have been reports that Tesla signed an agreement with China's theme park operator Haichang Holdings to build a super charging station.

In fact, the cooperation between Tesla and China Unicom was launched as early as April when it entered China. April 22, China Unicom and the Irish cubic EADS signed a cooperation agreement, together for Tesla to provide comprehensive automotive information solutions, China Unicom mainly for China's Tesla users to provide automotive information services. Among them, Tesla fancy cubic EADS network coverage of the global, while Cubic EADS Partners in China only China Unicom.

This cooperation is seen as the continuation and deepening of the strategic cooperation between the two sides in the April. As you can see, Tesla's cooperation with China Unicom is extending from the online mobile Internet Information Service to the charging service of the offline entity business Hall. In the future, both sides will also be possible in the brand promotion, marketing and other aspects of more in-depth cooperation.