Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD has revealed new fast-charging tech that can add 400km (249 miles) of range from a five minute charge. With the announcement, BYD has also promised to make a major investment in charging infrastructure, building over 4,000 of the new fast chargers across China.
The “Super e-Platform” tech is capable of charging at peak speeds of 1,000kW, double the fastest Tesla V4 superchargers, which will peak at 500kW when they roll out this year. The faster charging tech is initially available in two new vehicles, the Han L sedan and Tang L SUV, which start at 270,000 yuan (around $37,330).
“In order to completely solve our users’ charging anxiety, we have been pursuing a goal to make the charging time of electric vehicles as short as the refuelling time of petrol vehicles,” BYD founder Wang Chuanfu said from a Shenzhen launch event. “This is the first time in the industry that the unit of megawatt has been achieved on charging power.”
Wow, 1 MW surpasses a lot (most?) of lighting based superhero/supervillains (def the shitty ones like Vader, but also orders of magnitude from TWs in Thors sparklers?).
This is a totally normal thought to have whilst charging up your car, shut up.
Darth Vaders’s main power was not lightning, but telekinesis. I’d bet he would have a greater output spinning one (or more) industrial generators.
Oh, good thinking, yeah! Lol
(Also that is how force users would be used irl.)
There is also the whatever amount of power (fields?) was used for constant healing & prolonging life by Palpatine for himself & his lil puppy (Vader in my previous msg was a brainfart, I prob meant Sidious, but same diff … can’t brain today no more).
I bet this could be modified to make electricity via some chemical processes.
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Yeah but imagine the BMS you’d need for 1MW to not have everything immediately go to hell, especially as your math puts you at 1,000 volts, 1,000 amps. You can make cables that big, and perhaps that will become standard, but this is a bit beyond comprehension with current tech.
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I’m using 8AWG from the solar for 1,200W. While it may be overkill, well, one doesn’t want to start a fire in a van. That runs about 80A, so I’d likely be fine smaller, but 1,000 amps being “just” a centimetre is something of an absurd claim. I suppose compared to gas pumps, it’s tiny!
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Oh, yeah, I understood that - it was the fact that this is for the everyday “consumer” (for consumers) tech that inspired the comment, that regular folk will get up & personal with such tech soon & make it a regular mundane chore.
I could think about how much electricity an electric plant produces (& couldn’t comprehend it in daily terms that would make sense), but sitting in a charging car you get a much clearer picture of what that means, of how much energy (and “how much driving”) is running through that cable every second, etc.