The new Blade Battery 2.0 Flash Charging system can recharge EV batteries from 10% to 70% in five minutes.

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    5 days ago

    Universal standard should be 0-100 tbh, yes it’s not representative of the majority of real world use cases, but it’s the least arbitrary measurement and doesn’t hide anything while also giving people an upper bound of charge time in a worst case scenario.

    All other measurements exist to generate hype

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      That would be rather dumb and useless for real world use. Battery charging curves taper off aggressively when you approach 100%.

      My Ioniq 5 can do 10-80% in 18-20 minutes. But the remaining 80-100% can easily take 45 more minutes… So I can get way further, in a shorter amount of time by charging to 80%, driving until at 10% and then charging to 80% again.

      On top of that… For NMC batteries, the charging from 80-100% is where you put a lot of wear on your battery. So if you are at all interested in battery longevity you should avoid charging above 80% as much as possible.

      Here’s some data about the charging curve and amounts of time it takes to charge in different intervals on the Ioniq 5: https://evkx.net/models/hyundai/ioniq_5/ioniq_5_long_range_awd/chargingcurve/

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        “That would be rather dumb and useless for real world use. Battery charging curves taper off aggressively when you approach 100%.”

        I literally acknowledge this in the comment you are replying to. But the overall charge time still gives you a pretty decent idea of how 10-90 will stack up since a vehicle that charges 0-100 faster will also charge 10-90 faster as well.

        The point is that 0-100 locks in a set standard that is’t arbitrary and easy to change to make things look better than they are, not that it’s the best example of real world use. It gives less knowledgeable customers a consistent point of comparison across vehicles and brands.

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        I think they’re saying the measurement should be for a full charge to give you worst case scenario, which I wouldn’t be opposed to but would still want to know the 80% rate for the reasons you mentioned

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          5 days ago

          Sure, if all manufacterers included both, that would be nice. But removing the 10-80 to replace it with a 0-100 would be useless.

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            4 days ago

            The issue is that the charge behaviour of 10-80, 20-70, etc. is specific to lithium Ion batteries. Other chemistries have different properties, different charge curves. The only universally applicable standard that isn’t cherry picked to look specifically good, is 0-100. Sure it won’t help real world expectations, or help fuel brained people understand how long they’d really spend at a charger. For that you need to know more specifcs about your car. But it’s an important benchmark to compair different models and tech. And should be required on the window sticker and ads. Requiring 0-100 times won’t preclude other cherry picked numbers from being shown also. Requiring one will be enough to ensure both are shown.