Nxu Chargers - 4.5MW/700KW

[scaesare]

New player in the charging space?:

Nxu Charger Field Tests

Light on details... The "up to 4.5 MW of bi-directional DC power" spec is obviously total system power capability... for how many stalls? And "bi-directional"?

They say initial tests up to 700KW.. the implication is that a single cable can do 700KW. Can't think of anything that currently could draw that much power.

NACS plus a proprietary connector...

 

[Sophias_dad]

I'm skeptical(as always). Why even mention "4.5MW of bidirectional DC power"? Do they really think someone is going to pull up to the space with a 4.5MW generator or mountain of batteries to feed power back to the grid? Did they really equip it with 4.5MW of inverters(or a positively monstrous motor/generator) to get the DC to AC to backfeed the grid? Do they think there'll be a time when at the same moment someone arrives with 4.5MW of DC to get rid of that there will be 45 tesla's(or 7x700kw sucking loads) sitting there waiting to take that DC?

I'm guessing some marketeer that has no clue stuck the bidirectional in because its a nice big word.

 

[MP3Mike]

Light on details... The "up to 4.5 MW of bi-directional DC power" spec is obviously total system power capability... for how many stalls? And "bi-directional"?

I actually think that they might be talking about a single connection using their proprietary NXuOne connector. (As I recall they have demoed their system passing 1.5MW through it.)

 

[scaesare]

So 3 connectors capable of that for a "station" then?

 

[MP3Mike]

Their site has a little bit better data: Nxu™ | Home

So only 50kW of bidirectional AC charging. (But, assuming their on-board batteries are at a low SoC can support 4.5MW of bidirectional DC charging.)