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I'm assuming since even 250kw EV chargers require liquid cooling and are already difficult to work with (limited length, extremely stiff and a lot of hardware t

I'm assuming since even 250kw EV chargers require liquid cooling and are already difficult to work with (limited length, extremely stiff and a lot of hardware to safely connect), that it becomes a bit cumbersome to work with 8 of those cables. And even if you are reusing the same connectors and cables, I'm assuming it would need some kind of orchestration to have all the chargers work in unison. And at that point designing a single connector sounds like a logical next step. Especially if they are going to design it to work in the harsh environments they expect. But I'm also just a layperson, so I absolutely don't know for sure.

Reason077 7y ago
Higher voltages and liquid cooled cables permit higher power levels without making the cables and connectors unreasonably large and heavy. You can see this in Tesla's "V3" supercharger, where they increased the power to 250 kW, but actually made the cables thinner by adding liquid cooling. Of course, high voltages do brings other issues, like risk of arcing, that need to be mitigated.