Image: BYD via Weibo
China EV and battery giant BYD has announced details around its latest EV platform, which will deliver up to 1,000 kW of charging power to its upcoming electric vehicle models, helping it deliver 400 km of range in just 5 minutes.
On a Weibo live stream this week, the company showcased how it will significantly reduce charging times and will bring the EV fast-charging times close enough to fill an ICE vehicle with petrol.
The new 1,000 V architecture with 1,000 A of charging current will be able to add 2 km of range every second, making it the fastest charging system for mass-market EVs today.
BYD has also said that the new architecture will form its new Super e-Platform that will be coming to vehicles with 10C charging speeds, meaning that the car’s battery can be charged up to 10 times every hour.
This new platform will also incorporate BYD’s latest batteries which are engineered to handle these fast-charging speeds while on the road.
To help support the new architecture, BYD will be rolling out it’s own 1,000 V capable charging network and aims to deliver the new platform’s full potential at these sites, increasing access to thousands of ultra-fast charging stations across China.
Alongside that, it’s also announced the latest electric motor technology for its future EV line up, which will have e-motors that can spin at speeds of over 30,000 rpm, the highest of any production vehicle.
The latest motors will also help deliver a power output of 580 kW with a power density of 16.4 kW/kg.
These motors will also have new Silicon Carbide power chips to ensure they can handle the high voltages and currents in this new platform.
BYD’s Han L sedan, which starts at $A58,500, and the BYD Tang L SUV, priced from $A75,800, are the first models to utilise the Super e-Platform with pre-orders on both vehicles opening overnight ahead of both model’s official launch in April ahead of the Shanghai Auto Show.
BYD’s new platform is definitely one to watch out for as it’s a major leap forward in the charging technologies available in BYD’s vehicles today.
With Super e-Platform, that’s designed to significantly reduce charging times and make “range anxiety” a thing of the past, it’s likely to convince many buyers of ICE vehicles to make the shift to cleaner EVs sooner.
We look forward to tracking these developments as they come along and are eager to see if any international models like those in Australia are likely to receive this tech in the near future.
Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.
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That's great, but you're lucky if you can find a 350 kW charger in Australia!
You can find 350kw chargers, but they are all throttled back to maybe half of that because the power supply simply isn’t there. In locations where super duper fast charging would be nice, you will probably just end up queuing for the one working 75kw charger. 1000kw charging is a solution looking for a problem, apart perhaps from large trucks with giant batteries that may benefit.
Plugshare shows 40 350kW chargers in Australia, almost all between Adelaide and Brisbane.
Its way too fast.
I need 15 mins to park, plug in. walk to the rest room get a coffee.
These are of course the infrequent times you need to charge other than at home or at destination.
But be honest, don't you miss the carcinogenic whiff of diesel or petrol fumes, like the good old day?
Hopefully they won't be installing Batman brand tyres on such vehicles.
More vapourware. First they were going to have batteries, NexGen, Blade II, blah blah, then Solid State, now the new BS is “super fast charging”.
None of these are currently for sale in Australia, and won’t be for years (if ever). Yawn.
Meanwhile they are selling heavy, overpriced, inefficient cars here, some of which are even front wheel drive (yuck).
>10C charging speeds, meaning that the car’s battery can be charged up to 10 times every hour.
No it doesn't, and why would you want to try to do the impossible???
In the battery world, it means that that the battery can be charged at 10 times its rated capacity, ie a 100AH battery can be charged at 1000A, or a 1AH battery can be charged at 10A
So, a 10C battery can be fully charged in 1/10th of an hour, or 6 minutes. If it can also discharge at 10C, then it could complete 5 charge/discharge cycles in an hour, not 10.
Only if it could charge at 10C to 100%, which it cant. At an initial 10C charging rate the charge rate would need to be throttled back from perhaps 50% (a guess, might even be lower) SOC to maintain a safe voltage, and then down to perhaps 1C by the time it approaches full charge, so even 4 charges in a hour would be rather optimistic.
I don't know if this violates the laws of physics or chemistry but it sounds pretty iffy on the face of it.
More scary than iffy..................
........but this is the sort of kit you can come up with when you graduate more engineers in a year than the rest of the world combined.
Meanwhile the Yankees are focusing on "Financial Engineers" to create the next GFC and ever-bigger paydays for their College football teams.
Another Nail in Auto Legacy coffin.