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EV Charging, how fast can you get?

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I have just seen this article about a 1.2MW EV charging point:

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1123418/electric-car-charging-300-miles-range-15-minutes


How do you get this sort of power down a cable that you could easily pick up and plug in?  Where does the power come from?  What would this sort of charging rate do to the battery?  I hope all this stuff is properly shielded or I could see a few watches and phones suffering, bearing in mind that these items could easily be touching the cable.
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    I know the Tesla super fast charger (250kW) uses liquid cooling in the cables and the car prepares the batteries by warming them to a specific temperature to be able to take the charge, but even then it probably has a ramp up time. They say you can get 1000 miles of charge in just 1 hour.


    A 1.2MW charger is absolutely ludicrous, unless you have banks and banks of batteries all taking the charge evenly, or running it at HV, but if it's to do with lorries and heavy equipment, my concern would be any damage to the cables.


    Now if only we could get the batteries to last longer and hold a bigger charge...
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    I know the Tesla super fast charger (250kW) uses liquid cooling in the cables and the car prepares the batteries by warming them to a specific temperature to be able to take the charge, but even then it probably has a ramp up time. They say you can get 1000 miles of charge in just 1 hour.


    A 1.2MW charger is absolutely ludicrous, unless you have banks and banks of batteries all taking the charge evenly, or running it at HV, but if it's to do with lorries and heavy equipment, my concern would be any damage to the cables.


    Now if only we could get the batteries to last longer and hold a bigger charge...
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