The Future of EV charging is… Walmart

[K6CCC]

If our ER batteries could maintain 400 kwh

impossible. The CCS-1 standard has a max current of 500 amps. With our slightly less than 400 volts, that means we max out at a bit under 200 KW charge rate.

With that said, as i understand it, the large battery version of the Silverado has two battery packs that run in parallel for driving and switch to series for charging - resulting in a just under 800 volt pack. 500 amps at 800 volts is 400 KW. Assuming that information is correct, an elegant solution to a faster charge.

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[electricpig]

impossible. The CCS-1 standard has a max current of 500 amps. With our slightly less than 400 volts, that means we max out at a bit under 200 KW charge rate.

With that said, as i understand it, the large battery version of the Silverado has two battery packs that run in parallel for driving and switch to series for charging - resulting in a just under 800 volt pack. 500 amps at 800 volts is 400 KW. Assuming that information is correct, an elegant solution to a faster charge.

Well no kidding. I said if our batteries could take a continuous 400 kwh charge rate. I.e. they can not,

I was using the 131 kwh battery as an example to show 400 kwh is fast enough, that the current batteries except a.cpuple of Chinese batteries are the real limit.

 

[RickLightning]

That makes sense for around town/urban situations, but the thing holding back adoption from folks I know is that it takes me 10 hours to make an 8 hour trip out-of-state. Highway charging will be a blocker to the green transport transition until and unless the 45 min charging stop is cut to 5 mins.

LMAO.

Shorter than filling a gas F-150....

 

[Jseis]

LMAO.

Shorter than filling a gas F-150....

and shorter than filling the 35 gallon tank in my 7.3 F250 particularly because getting the last two gallons in took forever if the truck wasn’t sitting perfectly flat/slightly banked away from the filler side.

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