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Alpitronic reveals fast charger with 400 kW
- rektide 4y agoABB's had some recent 360kW charger deployments[1], and has a plan with Shell to deploy these across Germany[2]. This is just under 500HP charge! It's old now, but there's a video comparing a Model 3 & Audi e-tron charging, on a 350kW charger[3]. I'm mainly looking at the charge rate directly, since the cars will have different efficiencies & packs (70 & 85kWh I think?). The Tesla starts at 180kW but by +10m is charging alike the Audi, who holds steady at 140kW for a long time, while the model 3 keeps dropping. At +25m the Audi finally starts dropping charge rate, a bit, but is still doing 120kW at 80% SoC! Just interesting seeing the Audi be flat & the Model 3 really ramp down. Old video though. Oh, seems the Model3 can do faster. I suspect the Ionity caps out at 400V & that's holding up the charge. I wish volts & amps were visible in more charging videos, could be shown by the car too!!! [1] https://insideevs.com/news/583774/abb-installed-first-terra-360-chargers/ https://insideevs.com/news/583774/abb-installed-first-terra-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31269329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31269329 (3 points, 12d ago) [2] https://insideevs.com/news/586164/abb-shell-nationwide-deployment-360kw-chargers-germany/ https://insideevs.com/news/586164/abb-shell-nationwide-deplo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31405169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31405169 (4 points, 20h ago, 2 comments) [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPrVZtzAqX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPrVZtzAqX4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20153161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20153161 (6 points, 3yr ago)