The article is a bit misleading: basically all electric car batteries have a c-rate of 10, which means that a battery with a capacity of 60kWh could be charged with up to 600kW. This means that...
The article is a bit misleading: basically all electric car batteries have a c-rate of 10, which means that a battery with a capacity of 60kWh could be charged with up to 600kW. This means that the real limit lies in the power of the charging station, and that Porsche must have found a way to make a 350kW one in a safe and sustainable way (which is still impressive since it's around 100 times the power available in most houses)
It's about 100 times the power available from a single wall socket, but you wouldn't have your car charger plugged into the wall. The main RCD in my house is rated to 100A, which is 23kW. So it's...
It's about 100 times the power available from a single wall socket, but you wouldn't have your car charger plugged into the wall. The main RCD in my house is rated to 100A, which is 23kW. So it's more like 15 times what most houses have available, which is still a lot but it's not 100 times.
You couldn't have a modern house with only 3.5kW available - by the time the kettle and the TV are on together you'd be out of power!
The article is a bit misleading: basically all electric car batteries have a c-rate of 10, which means that a battery with a capacity of 60kWh could be charged with up to 600kW. This means that the real limit lies in the power of the charging station, and that Porsche must have found a way to make a 350kW one in a safe and sustainable way (which is still impressive since it's around 100 times the power available in most houses)
It's about 100 times the power available from a single wall socket, but you wouldn't have your car charger plugged into the wall. The main RCD in my house is rated to 100A, which is 23kW. So it's more like 15 times what most houses have available, which is still a lot but it's not 100 times.
You couldn't have a modern house with only 3.5kW available - by the time the kettle and the TV are on together you'd be out of power!