why the new electric Volkswagen car will be able to charge within 15 minutes but phones can still take hours to fully charge
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A lot of electric cars can be hooked directly to the power grid at charging stations which provides a lot more juice. Combine this with an air conditioning unit that cools the battery to keep it from being damaged as you heat it from charging so fast and you can get pretty fast charging. (You are still damaging your battery by charging it this fast)
It’s also important to note that you are only getting 80% charge in 15 minutes. Charging the last 20% of a battery takes longer than the first 80%.
Charging an electric car with a smallish battery looks something like this:
Normal wall outlet (phase 1): 20 hours
Dryer outlet (phase 2): 7 hours
Quickcharge outlet that houses don’t have access to in the US (phase 3): 45 minutes
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