Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this"

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BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Electricity is not my forte so correct me if I’m wrong but if you had a long gap in cars using the charger a capacitor would quickly become saturated. Which means you would need more wattage going to the capacitor at all times. Whereas with a battery if you have a car on a 5 minute charger with 5 minutes in between you could pretty easily run 500kW constantly to the battery and then as the battery dropped in level you could slowly ramp up the power draw

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