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> EV charging stations and other types of electronics rely on liquid cooling systems to remove heat from within their wires. Is this true? Are current car char
by tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
> EV charging stations and other types of electronics rely on liquid cooling systems to remove heat from within their wires.
Is this true? Are current car charging cables really liquid-cooled?
(The tech is interesting, but I'm extremely wary of university press releases and consider them less reliable than the worst yellow press publication).
Edit: Found a few examples, some very modern (<2 years) chargers may actually be using liquid cooling already. The new invention presented by Purdue (buried under more than two pages of drivel and self-praise) is that they're evaporating the cooling medium. This is already used e.g. in heat pipes, so the report does seem plausible.
- rootusrootus 5y ago> Are current car charging cables really liquid-cooled? IIRC the version 3.0 supercharger cables are. Not sure about other DC fast chargers, but I wouldn't be surprised if the ones capable of 350kW are. Slower DC chargers and L2 chargers aren't liquid cooled.