We're Charging Our Cars Wrong

05 Mar 2025 | Abstracted from IEEE Spectrum

"A charging station with four ports includes approximately $360,000 in power electronics, with more than $200,000 of that going for galvanic isolation...we propose to eliminate galvanic isolation. Billions of dollars of capital and energy expenses could be saved."

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