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Fire_monger t1_is3aybj wrote

Reply to comment by pseudopad in A breakthrough in electric vehicle battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced today by Wagamaga

I just read a paper about cooling electric vehicle cables to handle 2kA.

They're working on it, but it looks like it will need active cooling solutions. Or, a massive increase in voltage at the charger.

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Arrays_start_at_2 t1_is4h0xy wrote

Tesla’s v3 super chargers already use water-cooled cables. They can deliver 250 kW while being thinner and more flexible than the 150kW v2 cables.

They’re supposedly adding liquid cooling to the handle as well for the megacharger.

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40for60 t1_is5s8ll wrote

I doubt we ever see those for non commercial vehicles, I can see semi's needing them but what people are not getting is that the number of DC fast chargers for regular cars isn't going to be that great, most will be fully charged at home overnight so the idea of a "gas station" is a thing of the past. What we will see is a ton of 20 kw level 2's at destinations places like sports stadiums were people might drive 200 miles to go to.

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