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BYD unveils battery system that charges EVs in five minutes

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24 pointsadam__smith13 comments

awesome. Chinese EV innovation continues at a rapid pace - it's going to transform the world. In the meantime, america is defunding EVs and locking themselves technologically into the past. Its so short term and self destructive - the US car industries are quickly going to become irrelevant globally, only selling oversized fossil cars to the domestic market while the rest of the world leaves them behind.

American cars already are irrelevant globally aren't they? The only US car brands I tend to see in Europe are Tesla (not for long though), and Jeep and Chrysler which are now French / Italian owned.

Ford is still somewhat relevant in Europe, though possibly less so than it used to be. It certainly has a decent chunk of the van market, but you don’t see its cars as much as you used to.

Oh, I'm an idiot. Ford are still US owned right?

But the cars can push ads at stop lights! And sell your data! Surely that’ll help US car makers be cost competitive!

BYD’s new battery and charging system was capable of providing 470 kilometers (292 miles) of range in 5 minutes in tests on its new Han L sedan

So... if that sedan uses 200 watt-hours per mile, that comes to 720 kilowatts, or 3/4 of a megawatts.

The V4 supercharges are supposed to get up to 350 kilowatts. Maybe this would be amenable to being plugged in to two chargers at once?

Curious to see Tesla reveal what they've been working on. As the leader in EVs (according to this site) I expect nothing less than something better than what BYD have brought to the table.

They’ve been working on AI and autonomy for ages now, it’s not some super secret.

They for sure can’t compete in high end market (which goes against their mission anyway) and low end market is likely to be filled with chinese stuff. The niche they still got is autonomy and premium segment.

Presumably there is a need to transfer a lot of power in a very short timescale. That would seem to be the biggest hurdle to implementing this. The infrastructure would need to support it.

I've got a feeling that BYD is iPhonizing EVs...

Will VW & Toyota be the Nokia and Blackberry?

...and Tesla the Ericson?

Warren Buffett is an early investor in BYD, btw.

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