I love Kempower chargers! The different voltage of those units is very confusing for users though.

I wish Electrify America would adopt Kempower chargers in the US. They’re much more flexible and informative. You wouldn’t have to try to read the fine print when you’re pulling up to the station to figure out whether it’s 150kW or 350.

Quite interesting. Silly that they’re different units for 500V / 800V. Unlikely many people realize the difference.

Thanks sir!

These chargers are real neat. I like the flexible design and the voltage/amp readings. I also really like how the Hyundai/Kia twins can upscale the voltage. I wonder if Tesla will use a similar technique to pull more power from their superchargers. If they included higher voltage batteries on their newer cars and upscaled the voltage like this, they might could get 300+kW from the existing V3 supercharger.

300A makes no sense at all.

Felix, you are my hero! Thank you for this!

I have a theory why it might be asking for 450V only. I would assume the protocol doesn't tell the car what the max rating is. So the car comes and asks for the 650V it has on the battery (so-called 800V architecture 😈) and the charger says „No, that's too much“. The car concludes this is not a 800V charger, so it must be one of these 400V ones that have their max somewhere between 450V and 500V (400V chargers are meant for nominal battery voltage of 400V, so they can go somewhat higher) and the 450V is the next guess at what voltage to try.

Does the Ionic 5 have an internal DCDC to make battery voltage ( 650 isch ) from the 450V ?

Where‘s the station? 2 boxes for cars with trailers?

What is the cable rating?

Welke Ionoq heb je?