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    Chinese car-maker BYD has unveiled new battery tech that allows EVs to charge for 470 kilometer (292 mile) journeys in 5 minutes.
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    Chinese car-maker BYD has unveiled new battery tech that allows EVs to charge for 470 kilometer (292 mile) journeys in 5 minutes.

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    1. lughnasadh on

      Submission Statement

      BYD must really be worrying the legacy car makers. Not only is this the new global standard in battery charging, they also recently made Level 2 self-driving a standard feature on all vehicles – [even the $9,500 Seagull. Some other auto-makers have been selling that as an expensive add-on.](https://futurology.today/post/3656598)

      Chinese cars are now an existential threat to the older car makers, and they know it. This is having unintended consequences. Germany’s recent announcement of [€1 trillion in spending for military rearmament and infrastructure](https://www.dw.com/en/1-trillion-impact-what-easing-debt-brake-means-for-germany/a-71949959) is partially motivated by the need to retool the country’s declining industrial sector, which has long depended on the auto industry.

    3. Crenorz on

      does not mean much if there is 1 charger every 1500 km. This needs to be combined with – and we will make “affordable” charging in all cities or better. Not the – and only 1 charger at a single dealership – in all of the USA..

    5. Check_This_1 on

      New battery technologies will be good for the entire market. Competition will catch up. The future looks bright for electrics cars

    6. nitonitonii on

      How I wish we can start doing this is the west.

      News saying that a group “unveiled” a new technology, past testing, ready to use, already a reality.

      Here news annoumce the ketamine deliriums of tech bros when it’s in the very concepts phase “trip to mars”, “qubit computer”, “graphene”, then a decade later an nothing happens.

    8. GabbotheClown on

      Assuming 100 KWh battery that means the charger needs to be 1.2GW. Are we plugging these things directly into dams?

      Edit: I was only off by a 1000, thank you whilst! GW–>MW

    12. MonsterCookieCutter on

      Once the Chinese automakers have cornered the market due to their low prices, made possible by government subsidies, they will raise prices and we’ll pay the same for cars as we’re used to, but we will be completely reliant on China for them.

    13. joyous_maximus on

      Brilliant, now they need to license it to all but tetla, in any case with tumps tariffs more nations will likely align and open up to china so there goz tetla

    14. zippopopamus on

      China is making the future while the broligarchs’ carving up america for themselves