Re:Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps
by superkuh on Sunday April 06, 2025 @05:47PM
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You bring up a great point. The battery spec is only given at -10C. That's a mild normal day's low temperature in winter in Minneapolis, USA. But it's often much colder than that for long periods of time. I wonder if this glassy layer they apply can handle -30C; a temp where above ground heat pumps are no better than electrical resistive heating.
The real benefit, in my view, to being able to charge at cold temps is to improve overall efficiency. If you have to waste some amount of power to heat the battery then that is power that could have been used to charge the car instead...