• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Maybe with a supercapacitor in the station and a chrging cable with the diameter of a fuel hose.

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      5 hours ago

      Assuming this is about the same thing as the other BYD charging article I saw a couple days ago, they’re using a higher voltage, which would let them charge faster without needing a thicker* cable.

      (* The copper need not be thicker, but the insulation might need to be)

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        12 minutes ago

        The copper need not be thicker, but the insulation might need to be

        Exactly. More energy means either more copper or more rubber in the cable.

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          Rubber is cheap though, and flexible. If it’s the size of a gas pump hose, oh well; gas pump hoses are also rubber. As long as they don’t have to make the copper ridiculously thick, it shouldn’t matter how thick the cable overall is