5 hours ago, Coulomb said:

It's happening. Local (to me) fast charging company Tritium announced that they are selling 120 of their 350 kW ultra fast chargers to Ionity in Europe. I can't wrap my head around it; 350 kW is like 800 V at over 400 A.

I hope this link works:

https://www.facebook.com/Tritium.com.au/photos/a.423233144501010/1155257091298608/?type=3&theater

I can't comprehend the power in that cable. Heard most of them are actually water cooled cable running between the charger and vehicle.

Are most of these stations battery powered or grid?

6 hours ago, Coulomb said:

350 kW ultra fast chargers

that is impressive. 5.8kW/h in a minute! But what about the infrastructure to support this? The six stations in the picture would draw 

2.1megaW of power from the grid.

2 minutes ago, Fuenkli said:

2.1megaW of power from the grid.

Imagine that in SA, stations like that all over the country, with Eskom's woes. 🙂 

1 hour ago, Luminous said:

I can't comprehend the power in that cable. Heard most of them are actually water cooled cable running between the charger and vehicle.

Are most of these stations battery powered or grid?

I believe that they are nearly all grid, at least at this stage. A battery to support just one of those stations would be a serious investment. The power meters must be a blur when they're running 😮 Then again, it wouldn't be a domestic power meter.

52 minutes ago, Coulomb said:

I believe that they are nearly all grid, at least at this stage. A battery to support just one of those stations would be a serious investment. The power meters must be a blur when they're running 😮 Then again, it wouldn't be a domestic power meter.

I am sure they are creating a new segment in the market for everything big. This is a extract from the new Supercharge V3 stations of tesla.

" Looks like 250 kW per stall with 12,000 amp 480volt service being put in. "

https://electrek.co/2019/05/21/tesla-supercharger-v3-rollout-expand/