electric cars dont use fuel as such thats all. i mean i guess you could use a fuel cell, but anyway this car uses batteries. motors can get hot sure but with all that air running over them at the high speeds it makes at high powers its probably ok, or at least ok enough to get a rubber stamp in the chinese luxury market.
In my nearly two decades as an electrical engineer, I have either witnessed or seen video of electrical equipment and wiring melting, catching fire, or straight up blowing up. And that was all low voltage, 220 - 480 V.
Modern high performance EV batteries store power at 800 V+. When you’re charging at a 250 kW station, much of the bulk of the cable and charger is actually active cooling for the components. This car claims over 3000 HP on motors. That’s about 2300 kW being delivered from batteries to motors, an order of magnitude more than charging. If it’s relying on passive air cooling, it’s gotta have some massive cooling fins and heat pipes. Or maybe it relies on running out of juice before it reaches damaging temperatures, like the Veyron. Hence my original question.
I was just talking about the use of the word “fuel” which i now understand you to be using more informally for something like charge, which makes sense in the comparison. wasnt trying to be snarky, obvi idk about ur question tho sorry 🤷
I didn’t suspect you were being snarky, just wasn’t sure where we were misunderstanding each other. The fuel reference was for the Veyron, which is an ICE car, I omitted mentioning charge for the EV. 👍
electric cars dont use fuel as such thats all. i mean i guess you could use a fuel cell, but anyway this car uses batteries. motors can get hot sure but with all that air running over them at the high speeds it makes at high powers its probably ok, or at least ok enough to get a rubber stamp in the chinese luxury market.
In my nearly two decades as an electrical engineer, I have either witnessed or seen video of electrical equipment and wiring melting, catching fire, or straight up blowing up. And that was all low voltage, 220 - 480 V.
Modern high performance EV batteries store power at 800 V+. When you’re charging at a 250 kW station, much of the bulk of the cable and charger is actually active cooling for the components. This car claims over 3000 HP on motors. That’s about 2300 kW being delivered from batteries to motors, an order of magnitude more than charging. If it’s relying on passive air cooling, it’s gotta have some massive cooling fins and heat pipes. Or maybe it relies on running out of juice before it reaches damaging temperatures, like the Veyron. Hence my original question.
I hope my line of thinking is clear now.
I was just talking about the use of the word “fuel” which i now understand you to be using more informally for something like charge, which makes sense in the comparison. wasnt trying to be snarky, obvi idk about ur question tho sorry 🤷
I didn’t suspect you were being snarky, just wasn’t sure where we were misunderstanding each other. The fuel reference was for the Veyron, which is an ICE car, I omitted mentioning charge for the EV. 👍