Chinese BYD now promises to equip electric cars with a 1,000-volt architecture. This should mean that the cars charge as quickly as a gasoline car is refueled.
Car manufacturers have been promising and promising for the past many years. And now BYD is doing the same with a 1,000-volt architecture.
According to the Chinese, the technology means that their upcoming electric cars will charge just as quickly as you can already fill up a gasoline car.
Specifically, the Chinese say that the new cars have enough power for 400 kilometers of driving after 5 minutes in a charging socket.
This is reported by Car News China .
And if BYD's claim holds even a little bit of weight, it should shake the market to its core. The vast majority of electric cars today are based on a 400-volt system. Only a few, like the Porsche Taycan and its sister car, the Audi e-tron GT, run on 800 volts.
Here, it also becomes a question of how much power the charging stations can push through the cars. The vast majority are not geared at all to the amount of power that BYD now claims to be able to fill the cars with.
There is therefore quite a bill to be paid in upgrading the already expensive infrastructure for electric cars if the Chinese ceilings are to come to fruition.
Incidentally, BYD is not doing so well everywhere. Especially here in Denmark, the otherwise gigantic car brand is having a hard time breaking through.
Last year, importer Nic. Christiansen Gruppen registered just under 2,800 BYD models. Enough for 1.6 percent of the market. But not enough for a place in the overall top 10.
It could also be even worse for the Chinese. But that's on a very general level. The Liberal Party has proposed banning Chinese brands from coming near public tenders. Read more about it here .
