BYD showcases Blade EV battery with ultra-fast 9-minute recharging

[sreams]

EVs are not far off from ideal specs. 100KwH solid state battery, 200 HP front motor, 100HP rear motor, 1.2MwH charger. All of these things exist.

How is having twice as much power in the front compared to the back ideal?

 

[NumberNine]

Range anxiety is officially a thing of the past

If I had a dollar for every time...

 

[yannus]

Where do we get enough lithium for everyone ?
How do we do when the battery is dead considering their price and their low durability ?
How do we make enough electricity considering that most cars still have a combustion engine and that AI is going to use more and more of electricity production ?

As long as these questions don't have a positive answer, charging time is not that relevant.

 

[Puiu]

Where do we get enough lithium for everyone ?
How do we do when the battery is dead considering their price and their low durability ?
How do we make enough electricity considering that most cars still have a combustion engine and that AI is going to use more and more of electricity production ?

As long as these questions don't have a positive answer, charging time is not that relevant.

Lithium is not a major constraint and unlike fossil fuel we can recycle the batteries. As for the durability, it's not that low and newer tech is improving this further.

"How do we make enough electricity" - we continue to invest in renewable energy sources like hydro, solar and wind and even nuclear (where I live in Romania we are doing all of them). new tech too, for example we should see solar panels with 30-32% efficiency in the next decade and wind turbines are also becoming better and better.

As for AI, there will be a limit to how much they can invest for it. Eventually the well will dry up and they will have to focus on actually making a profit. Companies are just scrambling to the ones who survive in the end by trying to outspend each other.

 

[Luay]

A battery is only as good as the grid it plugs into. In places with tiered electricity tariffs, drawing power to charge cars could push a household into a higher consumption bracket, making the electricity itself more expensive for everything, including air-conditioning. The batteries (and the BYD cars) are amazing, but the software and the grid infrastructure, and the pricing per watt policies, are the real bottlenecks.

 

[havok585]

The first thing is that you can's skip physics. Current chargers max out at 350-400 kwh. Cutting the time in less that half WILL require an overhaul of the current infrastructure. Especially considering that this "new" battery will charge with the old system. Who's going to rip out a new one to cut the charging time by 2/3 or so?

Next, I would LOVE to have a compete list of all the Chinese "breakthroughs" than never come to pass. Anyone remember Deepseek had the fastest AI results without Nvidia hardware? How about China's breakthrough in lithography, having built a bootleg ASML EUV scanner? China has gained market share through IP ,theft, dumping (selling well below cost), and blackmailing countries with cutting off every market they've already captured unless you let them take over more markets.

By all means, let them in the US and we'll be in an even deeper hole than Europe is in with China dependence. Europe started giving Tesla a hard time because they didn't want a US company selling them EV's. The result is that the Chinese now OWN the European EV market, while the local companies are shutting down EV production just like the US has. The only difference is the US is pulling out due to red ink and lack of buyers. Europe just decided to give their market to the Chinese.

does not matter who makes it bud, it matter who makes it the cheapest and the better product for their market ! Europe has nothing, ofc Chinese products are imported. US? couldnt care less.

 

[gamerk2]

I'll say it again: If BYD were allowed to compete in the US, they would bankrupt the big 3 within a decade.

 

[Endymio]

I'll say it again: If BYD were allowed to compete in the US, they would bankrupt the big 3 within a decade.

Given they're subsidized heavily by the CCP, and essentially immune from the vastly expensive environmental and worker safety laws that fill US legal codes, as well as being able to employ essentially a slave-labor workforce legally banned from striking -- you are very likely correct.

 

[gamerk2]

Given they're subsidized heavily by the CCP, and essentially immune from the vastly expensive environmental and worker safety laws that fill US legal codes, as well as being able to employ essentially a slave-labor workforce legally banned from striking -- you are very likely correct.

If only we had a government willing to invest in itself...

 

[ChrisH1]

Range anxiety is about not being able to find a charger befoe the battery goes flat, not about how fast it charges up.

 

[wiyosaya]

Range anxiety is about not being able to find a charger befoe the battery goes flat, not about how fast it charges up.

I agree. However, IMO, in weaning people off fossil fuels, which refill a gas tank quickly, fast charging is an obstacle for those who want quick refueling.

 

[wiyosaya]

If only we had a government willing to invest in itself...

I agree. However, IMO, a big part of the problem is that there's no continuity in the opinions about where the pile of dirt looks best on the WH lawn.

 

[gamerk2]

I agree. However, IMO, a big part of the problem is that there's no continuity in the opinions about where the pile of dirt looks best on the WH lawn.

That's why parliamentary systems are better, since you tend to have governments in power for much longer timespans, so major efforts don't immediately get undercut after a year or two.

 

[GrayDragon]

Alternatively, charge your car overnight slowly every night. It's cheaper (no need to pay the big bucks for a fat charger at home or pay a lot for the electricity doing it elsewhere). It's better for the battery and you always start the day at full charge (or cap the charging at 80 percent so the batteries lifetime gets extended).

Need to go somewhere far once in a while grab a bite to eat whilst you charge, no time lost. With a bit of planning range anxiety really shouldn't be a thing for 99 percent of people.
It's like the people buying massive vehicles in case they need the space once a year... Just rent a frigging van. So many people making weird choices when it comes to their second largest purchase for weird edge cases that can be worked around

Actually I think a lot of people who don't have families are buying big cars so if they become homeless they have somewhere to sleep.

 

[Q Wales]

When I look at these guys and their constant innovation, I can't help thinking about Tesla, what happened to them, it feels like they just stopped.

 

[Endymio]

That's why parliamentary systems are better, since you tend to have governments in power for much longer timespans

Eh? Italy's parliamentary government has collapsed 70 times just since WW2 ...an average of one total collapse every 13 months.