Chinese language electrical carmaker and tech firm Nio has revealed a brand new ultra-fast charging station with 500kW most energy at 650A present.
The DC charger pile is billed as able to charging a long-range (100kWh battery) EV pack from 10 to 80 per cent in solely 20 minutes.
A liquid-cooled charging cable cuts weight drastically, making it simpler to make use of by hand. This super-fast charging pile will probably be open to different manufacturers of EV, the corporate provides.
Naturally, it must be a automobile operating on a 800V platform to get the utmost fee – examples past Nios being the Porsche Taycan, Hyundai Ioniq 5, and Kia EV6.
The Nio tower’s most charging energy tops that of rival Chinese language model Xpeng, which rolled out the S4 Supercharger in August 2022 with a 480kW ceiling (and a 670A most present).
Not so way back, a 350kW charger (akin to these made by Australia’s Tritium) was the highest degree, and stays the highest possibility for native DC public chargers.
In addition to its rising vary of automobiles and its charger enterprise, Nio can also be well-known in China (and beginning in Europe too) for its battery swap stations.
Similtaneously the 500kW DC charger, it revealed the third-generation energy swap station design, elevating capability to 408 swaps per day, a 30 per cent improve.
The stations are extremely automated for Nio merchandise, utilizing a summon-and-swap function tapping into laser radars and two Nvidia OrinX chips.
These stations permit Nio to promote battery-as-a-service (BaaS), which means homeowners successfully lease battery entry – which means their automotive at all times runs up-to-date packs.
Whereas largely centered on China, Nio is at present branching into European markets with its burgeoning vary comprising the ES6, ES7 and ES8 SUVs, EC6 and EC7 crossovers, and ET5 and ET7 sedans.
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