As prophesied by more than a few analysts along the years, China’s full-hearted embrace of electric vehicles has paid dividends. Starting with also-rans that required joint ventures with Western automakers, Chinese OEMs now make world-leading EVs crammed full of smartphone-like features that we’re told are the best thing since sliced bread. I remain skeptical about that for now, but I don’t need to be convinced about the advanced state of Chinese EV powertrain technology.

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I often wonder where all this instant energy comes from.

To fill up a battery in such a short time requires some pretty clever stuff on the part of the battery designer/manufacturer.

But what about the charger?

Such a huge amount of energy transferred in such a short time calls for some pretty clever charger ingenuity I would have thought.

My thoughts on how this could happen are that the charger might have it's own battery which can discharge quickly into the vehicles battery

then recharge at a slower rate which would put less strain on the grid.

Maybe someone knows how it is done?

4 hours ago, Muhendis said:

Maybe someone knows how it is done?

Megawatt level chargers which don't exist in the field here in Thailand.