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These specs could catapult LFP above all other battery chemistries. "400km in 10min" for a 700km range battery would mean 60% charge in 10min, which is about 1.5x the speed of today's fastest-charging NMC batteries. Hopefully there's not too much weight or discharge rate penalty. Excited for the future of LFP!

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>> CATL said at the event that the Shenxing Superfast Charging Battery is capable of adding 248 miles (400 km) in 10 minutes.<<

this is an extraordinary claim if true.

Assuming 400km worth of charge needs maybe 60 kw/h of energy, to deliver that amount of energy in 10 minutes would require at least 360kw charger. Charging just a few cars simultaneously will require megawatts of power.

I wonder what are the implications in terms of city infrastructure or investment costs to building charging stations for that.

Time to cross reference high traffic density highways with the location of high tension power lines and Buy, Mortimer, Buy!

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