Cars? No. Faster charging: yes. We just heard of a 360kW charger[1]. For a 100kWh pack that would be a 3.6C charge rate: if sustained that would be a 16m charge

Cars? No. Faster charging: yes. We just heard of a 360kW charger[1]. For a 100kWh pack that would be a 3.6C charge rate: if sustained that would be a 16m charge. Right now no cars can charge at that rate. For cars it just doesnt make sense. I'd love to see a like 30-60kW expansion bay pack standardized, something supplemental-ish to an integrated pack. But I doubt it. Packs are an interesting mix of skateboard flat packs & better integrated packs that fill in the space, that contour in to available space. Trying to imagine making a common interoperable swappable sognificantly sized standard is hard hard hard, but perhaps some subset could be standardized to good effect. But pverall, I think there's a huge vast & colossal innovation target, it's just way smaller. Scooters bikes & otger devices- I fully believe a 1-6kWh standard for swappable systems makes hella hella sense. Gogoro plus. There's been a couple other notable battery alliances (Yamaha and...) that have hella promise. That every lawn tool, power tool & other device also defines it's own proprietary system is fallen & shit: again there should be standards, for general consumer sake, if less for ability to interchangably charge (under half a kWh who cares, atm). But scaling up, finding common means: it's to the short term disadvantage of companies, but the long term advantage of end users. And i think, longer term, a less controlled & more open market is a huge win. For far smaer.batyery sizes than cars, as discussed & focused upon here. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31405169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31405169