China’s CATL says it has overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV battery charging time (www.ft.com)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 13:07
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sik0fewl@lemmy.ca on 21 Apr 13:27 next collapse

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Buffalox@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 21:58 collapse

Thanks.

PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 21 Apr 18:02 next collapse

It’s kinda weird that we have to specify CATL as being “China’s”. A product of traditional American tech hegemony and icy relations with the Chinese, I suppose…

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 22:03 collapse

There is no info on the CATL system in the article, beyond the claim that it charges 520 km in 5 minutes.
With the BYD news, we were told about developments in batteries, and that the charge was 1 freaking Mega Watt at 1000 Volt!!
Using 2 charging sockets. Also BYD demonstrated their system actually works.

We will have to see if more info arrives on the CATL system. But unless they can demonstrate it, they haven’t surpassed BYD yet.