Why Can't the U.s. Build 5-Minute E.v. Chargers?
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The US is struggling to build fast EV chargers, unlike China.
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> BYD has promised to build 4,000 “megawatt flash charging” stations in China to support its new cars with 1,000-kilowatt charging capacity.
No home outlet worldwide can support this kind of charging.
> “That allows them to build a high-power charging hub directly into the grid, sometimes even to high-voltage lines, bypassing a delay that would typically plague a local utility upgrade in the U.S.,” Russo said. “Things just have a straighter-line path to getting done,” he added.
The article makes it sound more like a regulatory issue. In the US you can’t just connect to a high voltage line.