Geely’s Lynk & Co brand has unveiled the 900V Energee Golden Brick Battery that Car News China reports is claimed to be capable of a 10-70% charge in four minutes 22 seconds, 10-80% in five minutes 32 seconds and 10-97% in eight minutes 42 seconds, beating the BYD Blade 2.0 battery‘s Flash Charging (10-70% in five minutes, 10-97% in nine minutes).
This is really crazy – we’re talking about a difference of half a minute here, give or take. Reminds me of the Mercedes-BMW-Audi horsepower race back in the day, but obviously that’s so yesterday now. Anyway, the test involved a Lynk & Co 10 fitted with the 95 kW battery. A max charging power of 1,100 kW was recorded, over 500 kW was maintained even after 80% was reached, and it was still 350 kW at 97%.
It would be easy to just think Geely has beaten BYD and go home, but the former’s test was conducted using Zeekr’s V4 megawatt flash charging pile (max 1,300 kW, 1,300A), for which no mass-rollout timeline has been announced yet. Conversely, BYD last month installed its 5,000th megawatt Flash Charging station (max 1,500 kW, 1,000V) and expects to build 20,000 stations by end-2026.
So there you go – we’ve officially gone from “Car A is X seconds faster than Car B to 100 km/h” to this.
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WOW that’s is rapid flash charging quicker than a typical Mirai refilled liquified hydrogen full tank
you can do whatever in testing. in real life , your battery going to death faster