Why Can't the U.S. Build 5-Minute E.V. Chargers?

Not sure what gas cooking has to do with it. You can cook with gas and have electric chargers. For that matter what does 120 volts have to do with it? Home outlets don’t affect the design of commercial EV chargers.

> BYD has promised to build 4,000 “megawatt flash charging” stations in China to support its new cars with 1,000-kilowatt charging capacity.

No home outlet worldwide can support this kind of charging.

> “That allows them to build a high-power charging hub directly into the grid, sometimes even to high-voltage lines, bypassing a delay that would typically plague a local utility upgrade in the U.S.,” Russo said. “Things just have a straighter-line path to getting done,” he added.

The article makes it sound more like a regulatory issue. In the US you can’t just connect to a high voltage line.