Nine minutes to fully charge an EV and drive 600 miles isn’t a marketing exaggeration. It required BYD to rebuild nearly everything to bring EV charging on par with the time taken to fuel up an internal combustion engine vehicle. The foundation of BYD’s Flash Charging is a 1,000V electrical architecture that lets the system push enormous power without the current climbing to dangerous levels. Nothing about this was off-the-shelf. BYD had to manufacture components that simply didn’t exist. There’s a new generation of silicon carbide power chips rated to 1,500 volts, redesigned electric motors, reworked motor controllers, and even a new HVAC system buil …
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Author: Simran Rastogi
