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Your Polestar 2 battery is based on battery technology that is 5+ years old. Right now you can buy a BYD car in China that charges at up to 1500kW - close to 10

Your Polestar 2 battery is based on battery technology that is 5+ years old. Right now you can buy a BYD car in China that charges at up to 1500kW - close to 10x the peak charging rate of a Polestar 2.

SV_BubbleTime 2mo ago
I’m an automotive EE… I find particular interest when someone mentions BYD as what “works” in electric vehicles. Wild fucking west right there.
- epistasis 2mo ago
  I'm not an automotive EE, could you explain more about BYD? I'd love to hear more from an expert!
  - SV_BubbleTime 2mo ago
    Things like crash, fire, egress, homologation and pedestrian impact, long term service… these are things western mfgs obsess over, and BYD doesn’t give a shit about. You can buy BYD vehicles without airbags. They’re Chinese market vehicles. It’s like DJI drones, they work, and they cheap, some are even decent performance on paper, but they aren’t “real” in a sense that serious users would demand. It’s OK if a BYD is bricked with a bad OTA. It’s less OK for the auto industry in the rest of the world. It’s taken Tesla a LONG time to figure out building computers is easy, and cars are hard. Same for BYD.
    - umeshunni 2mo ago
      BYD is selling millions of cars and will be #5 globally this year. They're doing fine whether or not racist westerners take them seriously. At the same time, western manufacturers are closing factories and begging for EU bailouts.
    - dzhiurgis 2mo ago
      DJI is bad example as they are pretty much only consumer drone you'd ever wanna buy. It absolutely decimates competition. It's more like Tesla. Not sure what you trying to say about BYD. I don't like them as cars, my friends do indeed have reliability issues and early ones are super uncomfortable. Latest ones are tacky with crappy software. IMO there's a lot of hype about them for some unknown reason. You can get vastly better deals over here.
- orliesaurus 2mo ago
  I'd love to learn more about this.
- jtwaleson 2mo ago
  *west -> east? ;)
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dzhiurgis 2mo ago
In NZ we have pretty good competition of Chinese EVs, but probably better would be looking at Australian market. Anyway there's only 1 car with over 500kW charge rate, only 5 over 400kW you can buy here - https://evdb.nz/evs?dcCharging=350%2B&mega=true https://evdb.nz/evs?dcCharging=350%2B&mega=true So they are not as common as you think they are. They'll probably come tho. Fastest charging BYD you can get here is 150kW lol.

SV_BubbleTime 2mo ago

I’m an automotive EE… I find particular interest when someone mentions BYD as what “works” in electric vehicles. Wild fucking west right there.

epistasis 2mo ago
I'm not an automotive EE, could you explain more about BYD? I'd love to hear more from an expert!
- SV_BubbleTime 2mo ago
  Things like crash, fire, egress, homologation and pedestrian impact, long term service… these are things western mfgs obsess over, and BYD doesn’t give a shit about. You can buy BYD vehicles without airbags. They’re Chinese market vehicles. It’s like DJI drones, they work, and they cheap, some are even decent performance on paper, but they aren’t “real” in a sense that serious users would demand. It’s OK if a BYD is bricked with a bad OTA. It’s less OK for the auto industry in the rest of the world. It’s taken Tesla a LONG time to figure out building computers is easy, and cars are hard. Same for BYD.
  - umeshunni 2mo ago
    BYD is selling millions of cars and will be #5 globally this year. They're doing fine whether or not racist westerners take them seriously. At the same time, western manufacturers are closing factories and begging for EU bailouts.
  - dzhiurgis 2mo ago
    DJI is bad example as they are pretty much only consumer drone you'd ever wanna buy. It absolutely decimates competition. It's more like Tesla. Not sure what you trying to say about BYD. I don't like them as cars, my friends do indeed have reliability issues and early ones are super uncomfortable. Latest ones are tacky with crappy software. IMO there's a lot of hype about them for some unknown reason. You can get vastly better deals over here.
orliesaurus 2mo ago
I'd love to learn more about this.
jtwaleson 2mo ago
*west -> east? ;)
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dzhiurgis 2mo ago

In NZ we have pretty good competition of Chinese EVs, but probably better would be looking at Australian market. Anyway there's only 1 car with over 500kW charge rate, only 5 over 400kW you can buy here - https://evdb.nz/evs?dcCharging=350%2B&mega=true https://evdb.nz/evs?dcCharging=350%2B&mega=true So they are not as common as you think they are. They'll probably come tho. Fastest charging BYD you can get here is 150kW lol.