BYD is Pushing the Envelope

[alarmguy]

Tesla was already shipping EVs from China to the US and other countries, so the vehicles are already in compliance with Canadian rules. All they have to do is load up a boat.

Manufacturer is restricted by company as to how many cars they will be able to import into Canada. So let’s say pulling a number out of thin air. Tesla may be allowed permission to import 10,000 cars from China still leaving room for other manufacturers to import cars.
The Canadian government will issue what they allowed to send to Canada by company

 

[Torrid]

No. Last count was five.

Ship fires or fires actually attributed to an EV? Those are two very different statements.

 

[PandaBear]

Yes, I'm interested to see how handling a 1.5MW charger is going to work for Joe Average, as that's a whole lot of power, and also what this ultimately looks like in terms of impact on battery life, which is being discussed in the other thread.

The same argument as to how many gallon of gas does the US use when the average horsepower of a car go from 100hp to 200hp.

Honestly, the total power consumption need is going to be based on how many miles per driver drive and how many of them are around. The law of large number would average them out. This higher power charging helps peak charging by reducing each person's needed time instead of letting them drive more.

 

[OVERKILL]

The same argument as to how many gallon of gas does the US use when the average horsepower of a car go from 100hp to 200hp.

Honestly, the total power consumption need is going to be based on how many miles per driver drive and how many of them are around. The law of large number would average them out. This higher power charging helps peak charging by reducing each person's needed time instead of letting them drive more.

It's not the power consumption, it is having 1.5MW of power in the hand of Joe Average, that's an incredible amount of juice (1,000V, 1,500A), and if you end up getting a DC arc flash, things can go badly very quickly.

This video shows an 800V DC arc flash, compared to an AC one: