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Alistair Charlton

This new EV charger can charge as quickly as filling with petrol at the pump

BYD Han.

Is this the moment EV sceptics have been waiting for? Finally, an electric car company has revealed the technology to charge an EV battery as quickly as it takes to fill a tank of petrol.

At least that’s the claim. Chinese EV giant BYD says its new Super e-Platform architecture has an enormous charge rate of 1,000 kW – almost three times more than the maximum charge rate of most current EVs, and ten times that of many other new cars on the market today.

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