300 kW chargers are pretty common here (Denmark), I did a search, and the fastest I can find is 400kW. But they are rare, and I don't think many cars can utilize that yet.
I have no doubt that when cars that can handle 1MW become common, we will also get the chargers for them. But it will probably also be expensive to use.
China doesn't have 1MW yet either, BYD has just begun building them. The fastest Tesla supercharger here is 250 kW.
We can now get cheap 22kW chargers for home use. But yes electric cars are still expensive, we are hoping 2nd hand EV will drop in price quickly, because there are always new better cars coming out. Here you can almost buy a house for what a new EV with good range cost.
Here it cost extra to use fast chargers, but we have from 50 to 300 kW. But already at 100 kW it's already more than twice the normal cost of electricity.
We have solar panels, so we would really really like an EV? That's free charging half the year. 😎
Charging this fast is always battery to battery, right?
It's DC but I think it's from grid through inverters. And those inverters are quite expensive. My guess is they can go on indefinitely.
Great article, but when comparing to BYD 5 min charging, the CATL system is incomplete.
The new CATL battery can handle faster charging, but they haven't made chargers that can handle or deliver the needed power, to charge that fast.
BYD has built the the entire infrastructure from charger to battery, the charging system in the car can handle the 1MW charging power required. (1000 volt at 1000 amp). A battery that can handle it from 10-60% And finally they are setting up charging stations that can supply that level of power.
The CATL battery is great because it shows we can go even further, but BYD has their system available NOW!
What may be the biggest benefit IMO though, is that the new CATL battery will allow cars to charge very fast even with smaller batteries. Which may introduce a completely new type of cheap EV with medium range that can charge super fast, so they can still be used reasonably well for occasional longer trips too. This is also helped by the more than twice as high durability of the new battery. Smaller batteries need to be charged more often, and these batteries can handle that too.
Chinas been threatening smaller countries to try to stop them from aligning with Americas policies here.
WTF else did you expect? If we align with USA we obviously get the same treatment as USA. That's only logical, and was a response to USA calling on allies to sanction (extreme tariffs) China too. Aligning with USA means you/we started it, not China.
Yes China has behaved like a bully too, but this case is not one of them.
Maybe Putin is realising that the Russian economy will break before Ukraine?
Aid to Ukraine fell by 16.7 per cent year-on-year to $15.5bn,
This is decidedly false:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine/
USA alone helped Ukraine with 114 billion USD over 3 years. So there is no way Ukraine only received 15.5 billion in 2024.
The line should possibly read: HUMANITARIAN Aid to Ukraine fell by 16.7 per cent year-on-year to $15.5bn,
Which is completely different.
The article is so poorly written it's basically misinformation.
Instead of aid to developing countries, the headline says international aid.
Aid to Ukraine is international aid, but Ukraine is not a developing country.
Also it's only measured on one organisation, so there os no way to judge whether aid through other channels have compensated.
Basically it's a trash headline, which I detected, so I lost interest in reading the article, except now I read it write this reply.
The article even states that the drop is probably due to an increase in aid to Ukraine. So the headline is decidedly misleading.
developing countries.
So the headline is misleading.
As long as they are headquartered in USA, the company is under American law, and USA can simply forbid them to expand to China.
Does helping Ukraine not count as international aid?
He may be old, but mentally and emotionally he is like a child.