The Tesla Cybertruck is the American electrical automotive maker’s first passenger mannequin constructed on an 800-volt structure. This permits for higher charging speeds to be reached in comparison with 400V fashions comparable to Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y, however as of this writing, there’s no public Tesla Supercharger stall able to delivering such a excessive voltage in the USA.
Because of this, charging the roughly 123-kilowatt-hour battery within the Cybertruck can take fairly a little bit of time when hooked as much as a 250 kW Supercharger. Throughout our testing, a top-up from 11% to 80% took precisely 45 minutes with our personal Mack Hogan observing a most velocity of 206 kW and a median session velocity of 118 kW.
The Cybertruck, nevertheless, can do way more on the charging entrance–simply not in the USA, because it seems.
One of many first Tesla Cybertrucks shipped and registered within the European Union set a brand new charging velocity file in Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital, final week. It was hooked as much as a 600 kW Ejoin charger by way of a CCS to NACS adapter and it registered a peak price of 405 kW. The earlier file of 327 kW was set within the U.S. utilizing an NxuOne 1,000V charging station.
The brand new peak was recorded at a 7% state of cost however the curve rapidly tapered and on the finish of the session, the common velocity was 113 kW. The full time spent charging to 100% was one hour and two minutes and the whole quantity of power pumped into the battery was 118.8 kWh.
We do not know what the battery’s state of cost was initially of the session, however it probably wasn’t 0%, seeing how throughout our personal Tom Moloughney’s testing the truck devoured up 122 kWh of power from empty to full and took a smidge underneath one and a half hours to finish the session.
That’s nonetheless fairly spectacular, although, and it goes to indicate that the know-how for shorter charging stops is right here already. Now, the chargers simply must catch as much as 800- and even 900-volt-capable automobiles just like the Cybertruck, up to date Porsche Taycan, Lucid Air and Kia EV6.