I bet they actually have incentives to create better technology.
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2026
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chinese companies are often run by engineers not management consultants, lawyers and accountants.
Those are some impressive numbers but I'm skeptical of anything China claims about their own tech. I don't doubt their battery tech is great but I've seen so many AI/CGI videos of their humanoid robots doing crazy shit and people online are eating it up.
I hear you but it's not like western tech does not outright lie about their specs and/or make up awards to seem better than it is
Totally fair, you're not wrong
can charge from 10-70% in just about five minutes
Why is that always a metric? Yeah, with a tiny battery or a kilowatt line maybe.
More important is the cycle count.
~~Edit: btw, why don't charging stations have a supercapacitor?~~
Because the power charging curve is non linear. You have to charge the battery slowly when it's almost depleted or full. So they only post the numbers that make them sound best.
Got it. Thanks!
Cycle count is important for the lifetime estimate on the battery, how long before you have to spend a large portion of the cost of the car on replacing / refurbishing a key component.
"Fill up" time is the most obvious and common 'maintenance' anyone will ever do on their vehicle. One of the biggest objections large swaths of the population have about EVs is/was that could take an hour or more for each stop on a long road trip or if you can't charge at home. (apartment / street parking / etc.) They usually do 10-70%r 80 or whatever because the speed trails off exponentially closer to 100%. (logarithmically? whichever.)
Because discharging 100kw of energy quickly would be dangerous.
Makes sense. Also still a fat wire needed.
and an external cooling system because moving that much energy makes heat.
Meanwhile ford wants to charge you a monthly fee for the luxury of opening the trunk n you e-mustang
I can't find any information on this. Can you tell me where you read this so I can get more info? I do see they're charging $495 for the plastic tub in the frunk now.
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China has also implemented the world’s most stringent standards for battery safety. They require automakers to ensure that batteries don't catch fire or explode for at least two hours after a single cell enters thermal runaway. If it does go ablaze, Chinese automakers are experimenting with some unusual ways of protecting the car and occupants from the battery fire.
I like it way more than charging speeds. But also - I'm interested in how many recharge cycles they supposedly can live through, and that's not in the article.
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Charge time sounds great, but what about the number of charge cycles (I.e. longevity), the article did not mention that.
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