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Originally Posted by Hugh
Agreed - much like Deepseek, probably vapourware, but the news release does its job by making the markets nervous.
However, tbf, BYD did start out as a battery company…
Update - a bit more detail here
Tesla can already charge 172 miles worth in 15 minutes, and XPeng and Zeekr can add about 280 miles and 342 miles of range in 10 minutes, so it may not be too fanciful.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...lon-musk-tesla |
A model 3 swasticar can charge from 10-80% in about half an hour using a proprietary supercharger that offers 250kW, (which for comparison is about ten times the maximum load a domestic supply can offer in the UK).
Assuming you have a battery that can receive a charge faster than that, and a charger that can supply it, to half that time needs 500kW. To do it in 5 minutes would need 6 times the power - 1,500kW. One and a half megawatts. And that’s just looking at the simple maths of ‘adding this much to the battery means passing this much through the charger’, without thinking about any inefficiencies. 1.5mW is about as much as a small business would use in a month. Supplying a line of BYD super-superchargers at Tebay services with enough electricity to charge even one car at a time in 5 minutes would be a serious undertaking.