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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I haven’t seen this mentioned yet: your phone uses one or just a few cells, and you can only charge a cell at a limited speed. A car uses hundreds of cells and even tough they are grouped, those groups (called ‘modules’) can be charged in parallel, thereby bringing down the required time tremendously.
But btw even the new ID.3 (if that’s what you mean) can’t charge *fully* in 15 minutes, it still needs an hour or more for that. As mentioned in [this article](https://www.motor1.com/news/369662/vw-id-3-unveiled-frankfurt/)
> A 100-kW quick charger should provide juice for about 180 miles (290 km) in 30 minutes.
So that’s 30 minutes for the fastest segment (the common 20-80% part), so with 290 km is not even the full range, so how you came to the conclusion that it charges in 15 is not clear to me.
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