7 ms·

Or 1300 horsepower

• incompatible 2y ago
  That's just a rough conversion for 1 megawatt. I was curious about the actual voltage and current they were using, since the article didn't say much.
  • adrian_b 2y ago
    The values posted above cannot be far from the real values. Perhaps they use something like 700 A at 1400 V. It is unlikely that they use a voltage over 1500 V, because the semiconductor switches used in the converter become much more expensive at higher voltages. A current of 700 A or even 1000 A can be easily handled by a single IGBT module. There are much bigger semiconductor switches that can handle several thousand ampere currents.
    • incompatible 2y ago
      I should have been clearer, I did a web search and found other articles, which based on marketing information from the company, say it's 1000A and 1000V. https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/byd-confirms-1000v-super-e-platform-fast-charging-400km-5-minutes/ https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/byd-confirms-1000v-super-e-pl...