If there is one really annoying thing about electric cars, it is that you can not just stop at the gas station to fill up the tank in a few minutes.
Instead, you sometimes have to stop at a fast charger to recharge your battery. And then you want it to go fast.
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How far do you get at a small stop?
But the interesting thing is not how fast the electric car manages to receive power from a fast charger, but how far you get on the power you get charged.
Or to put it another way: If you have two electric cars, where one charges twice as fast as the other, it does not help if the power consumption is twice as high at the same time.
And NAF wanted to find out how far one can go on a completely average charging stop of 25 minutes.
– How long it takes to charge an electric car to 80 percent is useful to know to get to know your own car better. But since the electric cars have such different sizes of battery pack and different consumption, the charging time is not in itself a good way to compare the cars, explains Anette Berve, test manager for electric cars in NAF.
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Two stand out clearly
– In the test, we charge the cars to 80 percent. There are two models that charged so fast that they reached 80 percent before 25 minutes had passed. It is the Audi e-tron GT and Porsche Taycan 4 Cross Turismo, says Berve.
The two models are built on the same platform, with the same technical solutions.
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