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The Swiss company ABB has launched Terra360, the world's fastest charging pile for electric vehicles, according to its website. According to ABB, the Terra360 charger can theoretically charge the electric car in 15 minutes and provide 100km range for the electric vehicle in less than three minutes. The maximum output power of its new charger is 360kW. In addition, the Terra360 is a modular charger that can charge up to four electric vehicles simultaneously through dynamic power distribution, saving space at the charging station. It is understood that Terra360 charging piles are expected to be listed in Europe by the end of 2021 and in the Asia-Pacific region in 2022.

As we all know, the current new energy vehicles are in the stage of rapid development, but the infrastructure can not keep up with the pace, which leads to the "charging anxiety" of new energy vehicles during holidays. According to a CCTV financial report, a new energy car owner returning from Shenzhen to Hunan during the National Day holiday spent more than five hours charging his car in the Leiyang service area. Originally, it took more than eight hours to travel, but it finally took 16 hours. The owner said: "at that time, I checked the navigation without traffic jams before I temporarily decided to go home. I walked quite smoothly all the way. When I got to the Leiyang service area, I had to recharge. As a result, I got to the charging station, where many cars lined up to recharge."

How to alleviate the "charging life anxiety", the most direct way is to speed up the layout of charging facilities. Of course, this is difficult to achieve in a short period of time, so improving charging efficiency and mileage has also become another way to solve the "charging anxiety". Imagine that if the charging time of an all-electric car in the future takes only more than ten minutes, then the battery life anxiety will be greatly reduced.

Take the newly announced charging pile of ABB in Switzerland as an example, it can theoretically charge pure electric cars in 15 minutes and provide charging space for four cars at the same time. If the domestic charging efficiency and infrastructure can be further improved. However, some netizens believe that if the vehicle does not support high-probability charging, no matter how large the charging power is in vain, and high-power charging also has safety risks, the requirements for automotive products are not small. Some netizens further said that the State Grid 120kw pile (under 500V voltage), most cars can only use 95kw (the car has only 400V voltage platform, the current is constant, the power is naturally low).

In the case of the sharp increase in the number of new energy vehicles, it is urgent to speed up the construction of infrastructure, but it is also difficult to achieve in a short time. Some netizens said that during the National Day holiday, gas stations stood in line for 50 minutes to fill up, and each time they filled up, it took only a few minutes, even for gas stations, so how many charging piles and locations will be needed in the future to meet so many new energy vehicles?

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