The race for the fastest-charging EV batteries
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🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: Chinese electric vehicle maker Zeekr says it’s come up with the world’s fastest-charging battery, which can be replenished in 10 minutes. Plus, there’s further backlash against over-tourism in Spain, where one city is planning to cut water supplies to illegal short term rentals. And is Montreal about to join the ranks of cities that never sleep? It’s planning special 24-hour zones to help boost its economy.
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| 0:00.0 | Bold claims from China in the Battle for EV domination. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Sarah Rogers in for Leannaburn. More news in the global |
| 0:16.3 | electric vehicle race this morning Chinese EV-Maker Zika says it's about to |
| 0:21.4 | launch the fastest charging battery in the world. |
| 0:25.0 | The BBC's Mariko Ooy has been looking at this for us. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi Mariko. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi Sarah. |
| 0:30.0 | Ease of charging and driving range. |
| 0:32.0 | That's been a consumer worry, hasn't it, |
| 0:33.4 | when looking at making the change to an electric vehicle. |
| 0:36.0 | So how fast will this car charge? |
| 0:39.1 | The company says that its upgraded batteries |
| 0:42.0 | can be charged from 10% to 80% capacity in just 10.5 |
| 0:47.5 | minutes using its ultra-fast charging stations. So in comparison, Tesla, of course, the company of Elon Musk, it says a 15 minute |
| 0:56.4 | charge allows its model 3 to cover about 175 miles, which is about 280 kilometers so it's actually faster than Tesla |
| 1:05.8 | whether or not it's the fastest in the world that we can't verify. |
| 1:09.8 | Seems quicker than charging my phone that from 10 to 80 percent. |
| 1:14.0 | It's one thing having the battery though, right? |
| 1:16.0 | So what about the charging points? |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, that's the thing, isn't it? |
| 1:20.0 | But I guess for Zika, its parent company is a Chinese company called Geely, which has huge pockets. |
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