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Looks like 100kw less than already existing non-Tesla 350kw chargers.
by lxe 8y ago
Looks like 100kw less than already existing non-Tesla 350kw chargers.
- Retric 8y ago0 cars currently shipping can handle 350kw charging. Delivering lot’s of power is fairly strait forward, designing cars to safely handle that is much harder. Further, as infrastructure that needs to work, the 1MW of power supplying these chargers is the more important upgrade as charging multiple cars was already power limited.
- llukas 8y ago250kw is not that much higher than 175kw - https://electrek.co/2018/12/18/audi-e-tron-155-kw-fast-charge-rate/ https://electrek.co/2018/12/18/audi-e-tron-155-kw-fast-charg...
- Retric 8y agoI don’t know if Tesla’s can do 250kw but that car was maxing out at 155kw charging and averaging below that. Which is my point, getting an affordable car well past 250kw charging is going to be difficult.
- _ph_ 8y agoThere are quite a lot 350kw charger boxes, but unfortunately, most of them still have standard CCS-cables, limiting the maximum current to 200A. This means, for most cars they are limited to about 80kW charging speed (400V). It would be cool though, if Tesla quickly rolled out the software updates to the European Model 3s, as they then could use the 350kW chargers for higher charging speeds as soon as the chargers support higher currents.
- nickik 8y agoThe essentially marketing chargers that don't actually exists in any wide scale and no cars that actually exists that can use it?
- jcfrei 8y agoYep, in Europe ionity is building a 350kW charging network. The new Porsche Taycan will supposedly support this. So it makes sense Tesla is stepping up their game.