ChinaEaselink, a developer of automated charging based in Graz, Austria, has signed Luxshare as its licensing partner for China. Luxshare is the first Asian company to license Easelink’s Matrix Charging, and will industrialise and supply the system for Chinese carmakers. Easelink announced the deal on 19 October 2026.
How Matrix Charging works
The driver parks over a pad set into the floor of the parking space. A connector then lowers from the underside of the car and touches the pad, so nobody plugs in a cable. The connection is conductive, through direct metal-to-metal contact, which separates it from wireless charging pads, where power crosses an air gap between two coils. Easelink says the system combines high energy efficiency with a cost-efficient design, and that it is covered by more than 100 patent applications worldwide. It also supports bidirectional charging, so a parked car can feed power back to the grid.
Why a partner in China
Easelink calls China the world’s largest e-mobility market and says supplying it takes a local-for-local approach, which is what a Chinese licensee provides. It ties growing demand for automated charging there to the progress of self-driving vehicles. A car that drives itself to a parking space still needs a person to plug it in, unless the connection happens on its own.
Luxshare is a contract manufacturer working across consumer electronics, automotive electronics, data-centre communications and healthcare, with more than 100 production bases in 30 countries. According to Easelink, the two companies are already working on first projects with carmakers to build the technology into future vehicle platforms, and Easelink will expand its own team in China. Neither company has named the carmakers, given a date for the first cars or published a charging power.
