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The WIRED Guide to Fast-Charging Your Phone
From PD to PPS and MagSafe to Qi2, we explain common smartphone charging technologies and how to fast-charge your phone.
Electrek18d
The 2025 Ford F-150 Lightning is smarter, easier to charge, and it has a stealthy new package
Ford added several new features to make it even easier for you to charge up. For one, you can now access charging information in real time to see things like charging speeds. You can also set a ...
Live Science19d
China's superfast charging technology is twice as fast as Tesla's — fully recharging EVs in just 6 minutes
A Chinese automaker has developed a battery that will enable electric vehicles (EVs) to charge almost as quickly as it takes to fill a regular car's gas tank. The new battery, named the e-platform ...
Electrek20d
The loophole is back open – Kias can charge at Tesla Superchargers again
Some Kia owners have once again found that they are able to charge on Tesla Superchargers, after Hyundai was officially allowed on the network this morning. There’s been quite a little back and ...
IEEE21d
Capacitance Distribution in Charge Pumps with Capacitive Load to Reduce Area and Input Energy
Abstract: This work introduces a novel design strategy for reducing and optimizing the silicon area and input energy of Dickson charge pumps with purely capacitive load. The strategy relies on the ...
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Using niobium tungsten oxide to allow lithium batteries to charge faster
To find it, the researchers turned to electron microscopy, to watch how a charge moved through niobium tungsten oxide (NbWo) crystals. They found that the structure of the crystals had a major impact ...
CNET22d
A 5-Minute Charge for This EV Battery Gives You 250 Miles of Range, China's BYD Says
BYD says it plans to deploy the charging-infrastructure technology in China. The batteries that can charge that quickly will initially be built into two new vehicles from the company, a sedan and ...
Fast Company22d
China’s new EVs can charge in 5 minutes
Filling an empty gas tank in an SUV might take five or six minutes. A new electric SUV from China’s BYD can charge its battery in roughly the same amount of time, using one of the company’s ...
The Australian Financial Review24d
How far ahead of its rivals is BYD’s fast charge?
This means it can charge batteries at a rate of about 2 kilometres per second and add 400 kilometres in range in five minutes. The technology release implies that BYD has cleared several hurdles ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore24d
Commentary: BYD’s 5-minute charge - is time running out for electric vehicle rivals?
This means it can charge batteries at a rate of about 2km per second and add 400km in range in five minutes. The technology release implies BYD has cleared several hurdles in ultrafast charging ...
The Indian Express25d
BYD’s promise of a 5-minute charge puts it firmly ahead in the EV race, widens gap with Tesla
Shenzhen-based BYD Co. promises to change that, having just unveiled a new battery-charging system for electric cars that the Chinese automaker says will allow some of its cars to charge almost as ...