For many homeowners, a home EV charger needs to be fast enough to fully charge a car overnight, which is possible with as little as 7kW, although up to 20 kW can be available depending on how modern your home’s electrical wiring is.
Whilst range anxiety is often more worrying than it is an actual concern, having access to a wide charging infrastructure is essential for convincing people to make the switch from petrol, diesel or hybrid cars to fully EV cars.
In general, a typical 7kW wall box will charge a typical EV in ten hours, which is ideal for overnight charging, but if you want to charge quickly when on the move, you may be looking for ways to charge your car more quickly.
Thankfully, whilst many public chargers can fully charge your car in a few hours, a new wave of ultra-fast chargers is expected to be rolled out in the near future.
The Chinese EV manufacturer BYD aims to install 300 “flash chargers” in the UK ahead of the launch of the Denza Z9GT, a 100kW luxury saloon with 952bhp and a typical range of 391 miles.
These chargers, which are twice as powerful as even the most powerful Tesla Supercharger at 1000kW, are said to add 250 miles of range in just five minutes, around the same time as a typical stop at a petrol station.
It is difficult to truly capture how much of a game-changer this is. Whilst range anxiety is a concern because of the (typically unfounded) fear of running out of charge, another parallel annoyance is waiting around at a public station whilst your car charges enough to get you home.
If a charger could give you 250 miles in five minutes, that could radically revolutionise EVs as we know them, although it must be noted that the number of cars that could feasibly charge that fast is strictly limited.
