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Geely has deployed 2,250 kWh charging stations in five cities across China
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schizoidman lemmy.zip schizoidman@lemmy.zip
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Geely has deployed 12C fast-charging stations in five cities across China to counter BYD’s flash chargers. Geely’s charging station boasts a peak output of 2,250 kWh DC per connector. It allows Zeekr– and Lynk & Co-branded EVs to charge from 10% to 97% in 8 minutes and 40 seconds.

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SW42 lemmy.world SW42@lemmy.world
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So I have two problems with this:

  1. kWh is the unit for Energy (Capacity if you like) and not power
  2. 2,2 kW is about as powerful as two water cookers. I think 2,2 MW is what is presumably meant.
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TropicalDingdong lemmy.world TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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So I have two problems with this: kWh is the unit for Energy (Capacity if you like) and not power 2,2 kW is about as powerful as two water cookers. I think 2,2 MW is what is presumably meant.

as two water cookers

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Successful_Try543 feddit.org Successful_Try543@feddit.org
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So I have two problems with this: kWh is the unit for Energy (Capacity if you like) and not power 2,2 kW is about as powerful as two water cookers. I think 2,2 MW is what is presumably meant.
  1. 2,2 kW is about as powerful as two water cookers. I think 2,2 MW is what is presumably meant.

The comma separates groups of thousands and isn't the decimal separator here. The text says 2,250 kWh which are 2.250 MWh.

I think they mean these 2250 kWh = 8.1 GJ of electric energy are transfered onto a vehicle in 8 m 40 s = 520 s. This would mean a power of 15.6 MW.

Edit: the text of the article makes clear that they, in fact, confused kWh and kW in the headline:

The charging pile supports a peak voltage of 1,500 V and a peak current of 1,500 A.

The future vehicles from the Hangzhou automaker will likely be able to charge at 2,250 kW.

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SW42 lemmy.world SW42@lemmy.world
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2,2 kW is about as powerful as two water cookers. I think 2,2 MW is what is presumably meant. The comma separates groups of thousands and isn't the decimal separator here. The text says 2,250 kWh which are 2.250 MWh. I think they mean these 2250 kWh = 8.1 GJ of electric energy are transfered onto a vehicle in 8 m 40 s = 520 s. This would mean a power of 15.6 MW. Edit: the text of the article ma...

Then the unit doesn’t make sense if you leave it up to the reader to do the math… also as a ballpoint 15 MW is wild… I want to see the connector that can handle the current at a voltage that doesn’t ignore any insulator at that size…

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SW42 lemmy.world SW42@lemmy.world
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as two water cookers

Immersion sous vide cookers are referred to as water cookers here.

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Then the unit doesn’t make sense if you leave it up to the reader to do the math… also as a ballpoint 15 MW is wild… I want to see the connector that can handle the current at a voltage that doesn’t ignore any insulator at that size…

Please see my edited post.

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as two water cookers

electric cattle kettle

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TropicalDingdong lemmy.world TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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Immersion sous vide cookers are referred to as water cookers here.

And count of sous vide cookers is a typical unit of measure?

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SW42 lemmy.world SW42@lemmy.world
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And count of sous vide cookers is a typical unit of measure?

Better than confusing Energy with Power

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And count of sous vide cookers is a typical unit of measure?

!anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

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AwesomeLowlander sh.itjust.works AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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So I have two problems with this: kWh is the unit for Energy (Capacity if you like) and not power 2,2 kW is about as powerful as two water cookers. I think 2,2 MW is what is presumably meant.

China — like many other countries — uses the comma as a thousands separator, not a decimal point. 2,250 is two thousand two hundred, not two point two.

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