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New BYD megawatt hyperchargers can top up your EV's battery as fast as filling up with petrol (www.carmagazine.co.uk)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Regarding people questioning durability:

https://thetechylife.com/how-long-do-byd-batteries-last/

BYD batteries are designed to last for 3000 to 5000 charge cycles

If a car has 400 km range on a charge and can handle 3000 cycles, that's 1.2 million kilometers.
While we don't know for sure, there has been nothing to indicate BYD should have compromised on that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

charging 400km or 250 miles in just 5 minutes!

This is crazy fast, 1 MegaWatt charging, 1000 Volt at 1000 ampere!!! This is twice as fast as the best Tesla can do.
https://www.theverge.com/news/631552/byd-1000kw-charging-ev-han-l-tang-l-battery

So who is laughing now Musk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ftbRWqkj0
BYD stock is soaring on the demonstration of this, while Tesla is dropping like a rock!

Edit:
Why the downvotes?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I’m not one of the down votes, but safely deploying chargers like these, and keeping cars working with them safe is a huge hurdle.

The temperature control of wires alone will be a big task. As are getting the grid to power these charging stations imagine 1mw demand that suddenly start and stop every 15 minutes. They’re like going to need grid level batteries at these charging stations to smooth out the demand on the grid.

I hope it all happens but in quite skeptical in the near term.

Also not to defend musk in any way, but the Tesla superchargers can do 1000v and as many amps as the connector’s temp sensor allows. Tesla claims sustained 900amp charging, but it’s take that with a lump of salt personally. Not sure if they were using water cooled cabling or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The temperature control of wires alone will be a big task.

They use double charging sockets, so with the higher voltage, it's actually about the same as current fast chargers.

They’re like going to need grid level batteries at these charging stations to smooth out the demand on the grid.

It's not much different than current charging stations, they can make do with fewer chargers if they are faster. So it probably evens out. BYD has already stated they will put up 400 of these themselves, the rate af fast charging has increased before without issue, why would this be different? Do you think it doesn't work because it's from China?
Because if you don't know already, China is actually ahead on Car batteries now!

PS sidenote:
My phone is 1½ years old cheap Xiaomi 13T Pro that charges at 125W, it cost half the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra top model at the time, that only had a 65 Watt charger, same size battery but 50% longer to charge! I have not noticed any degradation of the battery. Maybe that's why I'm less skeptical than most?