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by ZeroGravitas 357 days ago
4 MW chargers are currently being rolled out for electric ferries, so I don't see anything impossible about this future tech.

Seems silly for passenger car usage though where you could just use a much smaller battery using the same tech to get plenty of rang and so cut weight and get better efficiency.

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Deploying this kind of infrastructure for one-off industrial installations is not the same as, say, 70.000 supercharger locations around the world, never mind the 2.7 million 'normal' power charging points that currently exist and actually serve the majority of EV owners.

Indeed the best use of this tech would be a smaller capacity battery with ±1000km range, though achieving <10m charging time even on that will still be a challenge.