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by gkoz 4415 days ago
That's with a 120 kW charger. Can they increase the power 6 times? 720 kW per car?
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At some point the amount of copper needed to carry the current becomes heavier than the batteries themselves. 120kW is already outlandishly strong, at 120V it's 1000 amps!
Are Tesla Superchargers 3-phase 480V on the incoming side? It seems they would need to be to support 120kW charging.
If you had batteries which could accept that (Li-Ion's don't like going above 3C I think) and had the kind of energy density being claimed then it would be a relatively trivial matter to use a larger bank of them to provide the peak capability to charge a smaller bank of them.