Isn’t this wrong?
The article states that cars are unable to use chargers that are rated over 50kW. Surely cars can use the chargers, but not at rates over 50kW.
The reason is obvious. PHEVs have small batteries and charge rates are dependent on the size of the battery. If you don’t want to damage the battery you’re going to be limited to below 2C (twice the capacity per hour). With anything less than 25kWh in size, you won’t reach 50kW. PHEVs have batteries in the 10-20kWh range.
I know in north america, the corrector on a fast charger physically won’t plug into a car that can’t fast charge since it has extra pins. maybe it’s something like that?
I’m really not familiar with the technology but can the cars and chargers not negotiate power delivery? This is a solved problem in the USB-C world and I can’t imagine that these chargers aren’t smart enough to do this.
Yes. All cars able to DC charge at all have CCS2 connectors.
