Sinopec's 100+ Stations: Proof of EV Charger Reliability

Client logos on a website prove very little. Any supplier can buy a logo row for a landing page; logos do not come with audit trails. What carries evidence is a deployment: a named operator, a meaningful number of sites, and equipment that has been running long enough for problems to surface. On that measure, the Sinopec rollout is the strongest signal in FBK POWER's file: 100+ sites, 400+ ports, average 180 kW per port, delivered in six months, with the contract later expanded. This article explains why that record matters to anyone evaluating us as a supplier.

Why a Logo Wall Is Not Evidence

The standard B2B trust play is a row of logos, "trusted by," with no numbers behind them. The logos are usually real; the implied validation is not. A logo row tells you a logo license was signed, an evaluation unit was shipped, or a small pilot ran somewhere. It does not tell you the equipment survived production deployment, that the operator came back for more, or that the customer's engineers could actually work with yours.

Evidence looks different. It names the operator, counts the sites, states the timeline, and shows a contract that got extended. All of that is checkable here: Sinopec is named, the sites are counted, and the full deployment is documented in our case study. That is the difference between marketing and evidence.

The Sinopec Bar

Sinopec is the world's second-largest gas station network, with more than 30,000 service stations across China, and the country's largest oil products supplier. Two things about that matter for supplier evaluation.

First, the procurement bar. A company of that scale runs formal supplier qualification, typically including factory audits and quality-system reviews. Getting onto the qualified list is a filter in itself. Passing it once is a data point; staying on it through a 100+ site rollout is a different class of signal.

Second, the operational bar. Gas stations are safety-critical environments with fuel handling on site. The electrical work, the equipment placement, and the ongoing operation sit inside a much stricter regulatory envelope than a parking-garage install. Equipment that passes muster there has been tested against a higher bar than most commercial applications would impose.

100+ Sites Is Not a Demo

The difference between one demo site and 100+ sites is the diversity of the problems. Every station in the rollout presented a different electrical capacity situation, a different physical layout, and a different set of operational constraints. Some needed transformer upgrades, some had no spare footprint, and some required night work so fueling could continue uninterrupted. A supplier who can ship one well-tested unit to one site has not proven anything about their ability to handle that diversity. The rollout tested exactly that.

That last row is worth dwelling on. A 72-hour burn-in on every unit is the factory's own production decision, not a contract requirement. It costs money and time, and the factory chose it because a field failure on a fuel site is not an acceptable outcome. You are buying the same production discipline when you order from us, whether your order is one unit or a hundred.

What the Rollout Actually Tested

A 100+ site rollout is a stress test of four things that do not show up in a product datasheet:

• Electrical engineering at the site level. Most stations had limited capacity. The solution was our split-type DC charging cabinets in the 120-180 kW range, configured per site, with load management where the grid connection required it. That is engineering work per site, not a catalog sale.
• Manufacturing throughput. The factory delivered 400+ ports within eight weeks, with the 150,000 m² facility running at sustained volume and the supply chain to match.
• Installation logistics. Phased construction, night work, no interruption to fueling operations. That is project management, and it is exactly the skill set a multi-site buyer needs.
• Operational stability. The equipment has been running in commercial service since deployment, and the relationship did not end at handover. Sinopec expanded the contract to 200 additional sites, and the partnership deepened into a structural one.

The Partnership Deepened

A one-time order is a transaction. A deepened partnership is a different signal. In 2025, the Sinopec sales ecosystem and our parent group co-established Zhejiang Sinopec Yidian Technology Co., Ltd., a company focused on high-end charging equipment, built on the relationship that started with the rollout. The operator who ran 100+ of our sites moved from buyer to partner.

The operator's own evaluation, recorded in the case study, says it plainly: "FBK POWER's modular charging solution and rapid deployment capability were critical to meeting our aggressive EV infrastructure targets. The quality and reliability have exceeded our expectations, and we've already expanded our partnership." That is Sinopec's stated judgment, on the record, and the contract expansion to 200 additional sites backs it up.

The Group Behind the Factory

FBK POWER sits inside Huabang Group, a 36-year power-grid equipment manufacturer and a national specialized and innovative "Little Giant" enterprise, with projects in more than 30 countries. Why that matters to you: the company you would buy chargers from is not a standalone operation with a single product line. Its parent has three decades of grid-equipment engineering, which is the same engineering culture, high-voltage, safety-critical, utility-grade, that the charging business inherits.

The Trust-Transfer Argument

Here is the part that matters for your own supplier decision. Reliability does not transfer automatically, but evidence of reliability does. When you evaluate an EV charger supplier, you are trying to predict one thing: will this equipment keep working in my application, and will this company stand behind it if it does not? You cannot test that directly without running your own deployment, so you look for proxies.

The Sinopec rollout is a proxy with unusual strength, because it combines three things that rarely appear together: a demanding customer, a national oil company with formal qualification and safety-critical sites; scale, 100+ sites and 400+ ports rather than a pilot; and duration, with the equipment still running and the relationship grown into a structural partnership.

Add the independent layer, our UL 2202 Listing (certificates UL-US-2583475-0 / UL-CA-2561033-0) on DC chargers and ETL Listing to UL 2594 (Control No. 5035409) on AC chargers, both verifiable in public directories, and you have validation from two directions that do not talk to each other: a demanding commercial customer and an independent safety laboratory. One can be impressed by a sales pitch. Both arriving at the same conclusion is harder to dismiss.

How to Use This in Your Own Due Diligence

If you are evaluating us, or any charger supplier, ask for the same shape of evidence:

1. Name the operator and the site count. Logos without numbers are decoration.
2. Ask how many sites are in production, not how many were shipped. Shipped is a logistics number; in production is an engineering number.
3. Ask for the deployment timeline and the failure history across the fleet. A supplier who tracks fleet-level data can answer; one who does not will change the subject.
4. Check the certifications in public directories: UL Product iQ for UL Listings, the Intertek directory for ETL. Certificate numbers are cheap to verify.
5. Ask whether any deployment grew into a repeat or structural relationship. Repeat business is the only reference that cannot be bought.

The Sinopec story is on the record: 100+ sites, 400+ ports, average 180 kW per port, delivered in six months, expanded to 200 additional sites, and deepened into a partnership. The certificates are on the record too. Both are checkable, and both are why we can make a simple claim: the evidence of FBK POWER's reliability is public, and it has been stress-tested by the kind of customer whose standards are not negotiable.

If your team is building a supplier shortlist, bring this checklist to the conversations, or ask us to walk you through the burn-in protocol and the fleet-level data. Our DC fast chargers ran that rollout; our AC charging stations are built in the same facility to the same production and burn-in standard. The full deployment is documented in the Sinopec case study.

You may also find Sinopec EV Charging: 100+ Highway Sites Deployed and Gas Station EV Charging: Revenue Model & Site Layout Guide relevant to your project.

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