{"id":2160975,"date":"2026-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2160975"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:00:00","slug":"good-grief-geelys-new-ev-charger-gets-you-from-10-to-70-per-cent-in-under-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2160975","title":{"rendered":"Good grief, Geely\u2019s new EV charger gets you from 10 to 70 per cent in under five minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 dsxNZr\">\n<p>Not wanting to be outdone by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topgear.com\/car-news\/tech\/10-70-cent-five-minutes-flash-charging-next-big-thing-evs\">BYD\u2019s 1,500kW \u2018Flash Charging\u2019<\/a>, Geely has now announced its fifth generation \u2018Geely Smart Charging Station\u2019, and we\u2019re told that it delivers a peak power output of 2,250kW. Impressive, but surely they could have come up with a cooler name? We\u2019ll call it Quicksilver Charging. One for the Marvel fans out there.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this new tech has been unveiled alongside the Geely group\u2019s \u2018Next-Gen Ultra Short Blade Battery\u2019 (again with the naming, guys) and we\u2019re told that in real-world tests, it was able to charge a Lynk &amp; Co 10 and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topgear.com\/car-reviews\/zeekr-001\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"7485cb99-2f6d-47c1-8b48-ff27c6c2b536\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Zeekr 001 review: a budget alternative to the Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo?\">Zeekr 001<\/a> from 10 to 70 per cent in just 4m 30s. Yikes. Oh, and 10 to 97 per cent took only 8m 40s. That\u2019s essentially a full charge in just enough time to purchase and chug down a caffeinated beverage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 dsxNZr\">\n<p>Now, the makeup of the new battery apparently cuts heat generated during charging by 10 per cent, and Geely has also worked with a company called StepFun to develop a \u2018smart energy AI model\u2019 that essentially coordinates lots of data and then uses fancy algorithms to predict the battery temperatures up to 30 seconds in advance. It can then adjust the charging power on the fly to keep the battery\u2019s average temperature below 55\u00b0C while plugged in. Nice.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a new \u2018end-to-end five-point liquid-cooling system\u2019 that looks after everything from the charging station energy-storage battery to the charging pile, the cable, the charging port on the car and the battery pack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 dsxNZr\">\n<p>Geely \u2013 which owns Volvo, Polestar and Lotus, don\u2019t forget \u2013 says that this and the AI charging management software combine to give the battery a longer life by 20 per cent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not wanting to be outdone by BYD\u2019s 1,500kW \u2018Flash Charging\u2019, Geely has now announced its fifth generation \u2018Geely Smart Charging Station\u2019, and we\u2019re told that it delivers a peak power output of 2,250kW. Impressive, but surely they could have come up with a cooler name? We\u2019ll call it Quicksilver Charging. One for the Marvel fans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2160975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}