Major shift in the market if the battery is available AND performs. It could move more EVs into being a more desirable vehicle than an ICE car given the price differences between gas and electricity. Be very interesting to see if any other mfr–particularly a US car mfr–seeks to license the technology/buy their batteries. I do not see the different charger as being a particularly difficult barrier for consumers to accept.
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If you can still use existing chargers then no barrier. Sure it won’t charge as fast but it will still charge. And let’s face it, at home or at work I don’t need 10-minute charging. For that matter, only on road trips would I need 10-minute charging. So, put those on the major highways.
If this breakthrough is true, however, it just goes to show how far behind the US is on the newest trends in energy. Climate change denial coupled with powerful petroleum industry lobbying is letting the Green Energy revolution enrich someone else.
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A 10 minute charge would be great. That is a lot of coulombs tho. Would I be able to lift a charging cable thick enough to carry that much current?
Steve
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Yes, easily. Just go to any Tesla Supercharger and see if you can pick up one of those cables. The Zeekr shouldn’t be much bigger than that. The 250kw Tesla chargers are close to that same rate if they could maintain 250kw continuously…but after ~5-10 min they start to ramp down to prevent the battery from overheating, so the innovation is most likely in the battery and battery cooling
Mike