Agreed. 30 minutes to charge to 80% isn’t exactly impressive. It’s embarrassing.
From a practical standpoint I am not sure why one would want the faster DC charging capabilities for a limited range hybrid battery. It seems to me it would be something rarely used on a road trip and would just add extra expense to the car for the battery management system.
“Agreed. 30 minutes to charge to 80% isn’t exactly impressive. It’s embarrassing.”
That’s only for the LFP pack it’s fuel tank for the engine can filled in however fast the pump can put 60 liters in the tank which would be under 5 min in China.
I have been driven in BYD electrics in Shanghai they are solid as any BMW they.were cloned off of.
Given it’s a plug in hybrid they didn’t need to add 300kw 800V fast DC charging, 30 min in a 25kWh pack is 50kw at a perfectly reasonable 2C rate. LFP cells will do 6000+ full DOD cycles at 2C rates. The beauty of this is your first 60 ish miles is off cheap plug power you can charge at home then if you need to go farther the engine kicks in an gives you multiple hundreds of miles more with 5 min stops between those hundreds. Plus by only running the engine at peak performance you get crazy good mpg. They say 0.97 liters per 60 miles that has to be kilometers as ‘97L over 60 miles with 3.78 L to a US gallon is over 200 mpg makes more sense at .97L/60km
BYD has a QI plug in that has returned in real.world traffic 2L/100km that’s 108 US gal per mile ,confirmed a couple of times by different testers with ride along film crews in the cars as they drove around a major Chinese city in traffic typical.for them. The course of as well over 100km so not a short hypermile course just a solid half.day of city driving in a major city. Impressive is an understatement. They are simply leaving the USA behind in automotive tech. Nearly every new car has at least L2 automotive this one has L3 with no less than 3 radars and 16 sonars plus 360 God view camera’s.