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The good thing is that the USB-C ecosystem is open and a wide variety of known, vetted OEMs have stepped up to serve it.

USB-C to Lightning cables are still expensive because Apple hasn't opened the connector up for MFi certification yet, but Monoprice will happily sell you a USB-C brick with upto 40W output for $15:

https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=116&cp_id=10851&cs_id...

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I expect high powered chargers and battery packs to become more common as recently full system chips for handling USB-C PD have been released which support up to the 100W via various means. That makes it much easier to build them rather than having to rely on your own fab or reusing USB2.0 chips with some hacks.

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