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Re:CATL's Sodium-Ion Battery by zeristor on Saturday November 26, 2022 @02:49PM (#33755987)
There are some larger charging stations with large battery banks that can store enough electricity for fast charging.
Re:CATL's Sodium-Ion Battery by quonn on Saturday November 26, 2022 @02:57PM (#33756051)
It's more about being able to deliver it when many cars are charging. Charging speeds go down considerably. I typically don't get the maximum possible speed and often am far off and sometimes that depends on the number of cars charging.
Re:CATL's Sodium-Ion Battery by chris222 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @04:20PM (#33756862)
Your actual limitation when the site is full is usually the utility transformer. Tesla have been installing many 8 stall and even 12 stall sites with 750kVA pad transformers.

If they had a Tesla Megapack as a buffer for example the transformer wouldn’t be the bottleneck as the output is greater from the Megapack.