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The Google Universal Type-C Charger 60W that comes with the Google Chromebook Pixel (2015) is the first USB Type-C charger to be released into the market that supports USB Power Delivery. The recent Huawei P10 phone promotes Huawei's own SuperCharge technology but also in fact supports USB Power Delivery over the same USB Type-C connector.

To see how the Google charger would fare in charging the Huawei P10, we look at the USB Power Delivery negotiations between both devices when the phone's battery is 10% full.

The USB Power Delivery Source Capabilities provided by the Google Universal Type-C Charger 60W offers a few levels of power for the Huawei P10: 15 watts (5 volts @ 3 amps), 36 watts (12 volts @ 3 amps), and 60 watts (20 volts @ 3 amps).

The Huawei P10 then requests to pull 10 watts (5 volts @ 2 amps) from the Google charger and gets accepted.

The Google charger later requests to obtain Sink Capabilities from the Huawei P10 which is then followed by data role swaps between both devices.

When the Google Universal Type-C Charger 60W charges the Huawei P10 from 10% battery, we didn't observe USB Power Delivery negotiation to successfully complete although we did observe that the phone only trickle charges at mostly around 5 watts @ 0.2 amps from the Google charger. Since the current drawn is too low for the phone to charge properly, the Google Universal Type-C Charger 60W unfortunately isn't really able to charge the Huawei P10 using USB Power Delivery.