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400 kilometers loads in five minutes of ByD are as impressive as it is not very useful. At least they think of Mercedes

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“Probably, no.” With that forceful response, Andrew Cornelia, CEO of Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging and therefore the head of the company’s recharge systems, explained his opinion on the Awesome recharge system presented by byd A few days ago. The answer has arrived in Plugged-in podcastthe radio space of Insideevs. There, Cornelia explained that the exercise for having such a rapid recharge under the arm obeys the need to give a backup to users than to the real utility of the same. The origin of these comments must be sought in the presentation of ByD a few days ago. The company confirmed that it has two cars ready and a load platform that allows recharging up to 400 kilometers of autonomy in five minutes. They get it, on paper, Delivering 1 MWh of sustained power. At the time we explain that it would be necessary to do to what extent it is true to recharge 400 real kilometers in five minutes. Keep in mind that the Chinese homologation cycle is much more lax than the European WLTP that, in fact, It does not completely reflect consumption From electric cars at highway speeds 120-130 km/h in the vast majority of European countries. With such a power, yes, the data is almost irrelevant because to fill 400 kilometers in five minutes it is possible that very little more time is needed. Of course, you have to have some conditions into account. The first is that, Assuming a consumption of 20 kWh/100 kma figure that is not especially good or exceptionally high, it would be necessary to fill the battery with 80 kW to make those 400 real kilometers of autonomy. This implies that a much larger battery is needed. Keep in mind that the loading power decays substantially when the battery goes from 80% capacity to protect from excessive degradation. The usual thing is that the cargo peak arrives, at least, after the first 10%. Therefore, filling 80 kW from 10 to 80% of the battery capacity would imply having about 115 kWh capacity under the body. In addition, the charger must be able to supply this power during those five minutes without resenting the least. The load should be, at least with a power of 960 kW. An absolutely unknown figure currently in European loaders. For Mercedes it makes no sense And they are probably right. Although those 400 kilometers of autonomy in five minutes sound especially good, what they say in Mercedes is that a stop to fill a gas tank involves stopping about 10-12 minutes on average. And that is where you have to point. In order to load that amount of kilometers, huge infrastructure is needed around each electric car. Byd will have to display your own loaders And only a few cars can assume that stream of electrical power. To get an idea, a Tesla Model and Juniper It has the capacity to recharge its batteries at 270 kW (about three times) and a Porsche Taycan, one of the models with the best figures on the market, “only” admits 320 kW of power in a recharge. With 320 kW of power, Porsche Taycan only needs 18 minutes to move from 0% battery to 80%. With that 80% battery, which has a useful capacity of 97 kWh, it should be able to make the aforementioned 400 real kilometers. If we add that the driver will never arrive with 0% battery to the load point … it is expected that with the appropriate charger the Porsche Taycan receives that amount of energy in 15 minutes more or less. According to Mercedes accounts, there is hardly any difference with what would take time to fill the deposit. In fact, I encourage anyone to think how long it takes to make a stop during a long trip with a combustion car. I do not talk about sitting down to eat, maybe or to ask for coffee, enough to go to the bathroom. I doubt that the driver has to “wait for the car” in that case, it is very likely that little by stretching his legs he has the battery ready to continue again. And we are not talking about 200 kilometers, we talk about replenishing 400 kilometers in just over 10 minutes. However, Mercedes gives relevance to the development of this type of rapid recharges. “It’s key,” says Cornelia in the podcast. “It’s an amazing advance, The industry will follow its example“, But stressed that” there is only a limited number of use cases in which such a fast recharge really makes sense (…) If you go to the cinema, you do not need a 1,000 kW load. You need something that lasts two hours. If you go to a cafeteria, you may want something faster, but it is still a 15 -minute stop to enter and leave. “ In spite of everything mentioned above and although Mercedes has recognized us That they prefer to focus on efficiency and low consumption or a greater and better density of their batteries, it is true that Byd’s advance is very interesting. First for the company that allows you to have an added value in the process of purchase of the next electric car of a potential customer, As the Tesla charger has meant in the United States. But, also because it offers support and security to the customer. You may never use it very counted throughout the useful life of the vehicle. What happens with these extremely powerful chargers is the same that happens with the Autonomies of 1,000 kilometers In an electric car (exist or not). In practice they are not necessary but help strengthen the security of those who adopt the new technology because blur your barriers With what it is to drive a combustion car. In spite of everything, one thing must be very clear. Until now, what is presented by ByD is an advance for China with two very specific models, it is not something that will reach Europe … Read more

In 2007, Better Place said to recharge an electric car in five minutes. This is the story of a loud failure

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Nio and Catl have reached an agreement to implement the largest battery exchange network in the world. “The most extensive and advanced,” Catl announced in a statement collected by The avant -garde. The project comes from afar. In 2020Nio already presumed that he could change the battery of his electric cars in three minutes. Since then, we had not known the project beyond In 2022 The electric cars company made noise with this issue. By then, the competition seemed served. The Geely Group, also Chinese, assured that In 2025 5,000 stations would have deployed of battery exchange. But, again, little has been known again on the matter. Until Catl has decided to trust the child project, investing 314 million euros in its battery exchange system. But although they explain that they aspire to have the “most extensive” network, the truth is that no stations numbers data have been provided. However, Nio and Catl’s proposal is not alone. In China, other companies have also tried to standardize this system and Bloomberg He calculated in 2022 that for this year some 26,000 battery exchange stations in the Asian country would have available. It is clear that there is some interest in China in keep investing in the system and technology. However, everything indicates that if there are certain recharge times of byd and are economically viable their stations, A 400 km load in five minutes You can kill the concept. If so, the system would go to a better life. A system that has already been touched almost 20 years ago and that failed irremediably when, ironically, more fault. A little context with a battalion When a person tells me that an electric car does not serve to travel and, above all, he tells me that they will not be in a long time, I usually tell an experience. At the end of 2019 I participated a project to join all the provincial capitals of the Iberian Peninsula by electric car. It was about demonstrating that the network had advanced and that the second generation of Nissan Leaf was a much more capable car. Turning among colleagues, it was late as little as possible. We get it yes, but it is also true that the challenge took us Almost seven days Although we stopped just and necessary to recharge the car. We ate as the car was loaded and slept while the car drank from the plugs. I remember calling a gas station to ask please open a plug even though we arrived after the service station had closed. We had no choice. For Todo Teruel there was only one public charger available. That charger had to open with a key the employees of the gas station. They asked us that at the end we would leave the hidden key. Once the load was finished, Nissan’s electric should have almost 400 kilometers available on a 62 kWh battery. The truth is that we stopped every 200-250 km to take advantage of the fastest part of the recharge unless we would like to sleep in the middle of the trip. Today, in Teruel and its surroundings, there are More than 25 public plugs available according to Electromaps. A few kilometers from the city, next to the highway, one carries 100 kW. Two other closest plugs can load a maximum of 350 kW if your car admits it. That Nissan Leaf, tells us Km77it would have taken 90 minutes to go from 0 to 80% of the battery charge. Today, most cars with 60-70 kWh battery capacity would recover the load up to 80% in about 20 minutes. I count all this battalion because, believe me, if I had had a Better Place battery exchange station on hand, I would have used it. Too bad that when we got into that jaleo, the project had been dead for six years. In just over a five years, the electric car market in Spain has changed completely. And although the recharge network You have to keep improvingright now it is easy to travel to any point in the country if the car has more than 60 kWh battery capacity. The minimum required to travel if we are going to make the recommended stops every two hours or 200 kilometers. What happened to Better Place? We explained all this because it is important to know the context. Having an electric car and traveling with him makes just over a five years ago was a real headache. Now, imagine that you are in 2007 and someone has said that those cars that barely do 200 kilometers in the best case and take a whole night to load are the future. What would you think? You have to look for ways to reduce loading times. And that same idea had Shai Agassi. This Israeli businessman saw that there was a business road. The electric car began to make its way but without recharge points and with times of the same too extensive, the project was unfeasible. He decided that he would create something as simple and as groundbreaking as a battery exchange station. The theory was perfect on paper: you arrive with your car and you don’t have to worry about standing for hours. In a few minutes the car would be ready to travel another 150-200 kilometers. In practice, the car was something like taking it to a wash tunnel. You entered the station after saving a barrier. Inside, The machine extracted the car battery and “sealed” it with another already loaded. An auxiliary space was needed to recharge the batteries that were interspersed. The proposal received immediate support. Different investors came to put 650 million euros in total. In 2013 the company declared bankruptcy after raising just over five million euros. Along the way, yes, I had attracted Renault’s interest. The French company adapted its Renault Fluence to function as an electric car. He put the surname ZE and the car was compatible with the battery … Read more

The Xiaomi Su7 Ultra has unleashed madness by registering 7,000 reservations in 10 minutes. They planned to sell 10,000 units throughout 2025

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Xiaomi aspires to sell 10,000 units of your Xiaomi Su7 Ultra. Those were the words of Lei Jun, CEO of the company, a few days ago in his account of the Chinese social network Weibo, as they collect in South China Morning Post. The announcement warmed a little more the event of yesterday, February 27, in which the company was expected to finally reveal all the details of its faster, powerful and radical electric car. The same as has broken the record in the green hell and in Three other circuits. Finally, and although it almost seemed that we already knew everything we could know in advance, Lei Jun in person was by disagreeing All the detailsone by one, what they have in hand. With direct references to Porsche and Tesla He told us that his electric car will be faster and more efficient than German and American models and, if that were not enough, he demonstrated some autonomous driving capabilities that seemed really advanced. And all this for a fraction of its price. Not just that. Also the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra was a car announced at an even cheaper price than expected. And the results did not wait. They wanted to produce 10,000 units … And everything indicates that they will have to expand (if they can) the plans. As we said, Lei Jun affirmed a few days ago that the company hoped to place this number in the market of its most expensive electric car. An electric car that will finally have the following prices: Xiaomi Su7 Ultra: 529,000 Chinese yuan (about 70,000 euros to direct change) Xiaomi Su7 Ultra with the Racing package: 629,000 Chinese yuan (about 83,200 euros to change) Xiaomi Su7 Ultra Nürburgring: 814,900 Chinese yuan (about 107,000 euros) It should be noted that The price of the base model is 34.97% lower to which the first reserves of the car opened when it was announced last October. Then all the characteristics were specified. To get these three versions, there are two ways. The first is to reserve the car for 20,000 Chinese yuan (about 2,700 euros) for seven days. At that time the client can back and guarantee the reimbursement. It is not guaranteed that you want to ensure one of the first units. In that case, the reserve is 40,000 Chinese yuan (about 5,400 euros) but will receive one of the units already manufactured. In addition, if you commission a unit before March 31, “you will be entitled to advantages worth up to 90,000 rmb (12,000 euros) “, in the words of the brand. These prices have led to reservations to shoot. In 10 minutes the company said that 6,900 reservations had already been registered, our colleagues collect Xiaomi world. This does not mean that there have been 7,000 sales but it is confirmed that almost 7,000 people are already thinking about it. The figure gives an idea of back towards the product and the good performance that Xiaomi is taking out at the price of its vehicles. In comparisons they put as a reference to Tesla Model S Plaid, a car that in China is sold for 814,900 Chinese yuan, the same price as the edition Nürburgringthe most radical and in two -seater format. And they were not cut when pointing out that their xiaomi su7 ultra, with the package Racing It already improves the figures of the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT, a car knows for 1,998,000 Chinese yuan (263,046.69 euros). That is, three times more than the price of the “with chucheías” version of the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra. Photo | Lei Jun in X In Xataka | Tesla sales in Europe have sunk 45% and their shares are paying expensive. It’s not even your worst news

The “two minutes” rule

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In the very often non-tan-efficient search for efficiency we find more books, articles, podcasts, courses and tutorials along the way we can manage. It is even difficult to remember the keys to what we could follow. Too many stimuli. However, There is a simple rule impossible to forget in the productivity environment. It is the two -minute rule, coined by David Allen in his Methodology for Time Management and Personal Productivity (GTD), collected in his book ‘Organize effectively‘. Closing eyelashes in the brain This rule proposes that if a task can be completed in two minutes or less we must do it immediately. What exceeds that duration must already be noted, processed, classified, etc. In our management system. But if so brief, you don’t have to waste a second to think about it, just do it. This maxim has transformed my perception of productivity and time management. The beauty of this rule lies in its simplicity and its transformative potential. When applying this rule I was surprised to discover how many small, accumulated tasks, they can become a mountain of stress and procrastination. A fast email, order a messy desk, respond to a message; All these are actions that, although small, weigh in our mind and distract our attention from more significant tasks. This rule also teaches us about efficiency. When immediately addressing small tasks, we release mental space and energy that would otherwise be spent remembering and postponing these activities. It is a kind of economy of attention, where each small action performed is a step towards greater mental clarity and concentration. However, like any tool, the two -minute rule has its risks. The main is the possibility of overwhelming us with minor tasks, losing sight of the biggest objectives. The classic sensation of completeness That transmits to complete small tasks, sometimes little transcendent, which makes us neglect the really important. That is why it is crucial to use this rule within a broader framework of time management and priorities. It is not about doing everything that can be in two minutes, but about using the time to do what really matters and not accumulate pending that we could unblock. This axiom is more than a simple productivity trick, it is An immediate action philosophy and efficient time management. In its application I have discovered not only greater productivity, but also a sense of control and achievement that transcends my task list. It is a small rule with an impact on work and life. In Xataka | Three morning habits that will help you be happier and more productive at work, according to science Outstanding image | Xataka with Dall · E. *An earlier version of this article was published in January 2024

‘The Brutalist’ is so long that it includes an intermediate of 15 minutes. And to the surprise of the director himself, people are delighted

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Since we began talking about ‘The Brutalist’, Brady Corbet’s movie that It is nominated for ten Oscar And that is presented as one of the favorites to take the lists of the best of the year, all chronicles and criticism emphasized their duration, unusually long, three and a half hours. And also the even more unusual decision to be screened divided into two parts, separated by a fifteen minutes intermediate. But why. Was the intermediate necessary? According to Corbet and his coguionist Mona Fastvold, yes. In An interview with Indie Wire They said that “he was always scripted, the intermediate. He is curious, in a way he has caught the attention of what we expected. I personally have trouble sitting still for three and a half hours, so I needed it. And it was a decision of face to the public “. And they added that “people feel at home and see between eight and sixteen hours of a limited series with small breaks, so if you apply that idea to this movie, you are zampando with a little break in the middle.” Longer and longer movies. There is a very fashionable calculation in these times, in order to maximize the time we dedicate to leisure and that values ​​the profitability of cultural works: the longer, the more value we are giving our free time. In the video game industry, the number of hours needed to finish a game is a detail that is made public before it goes on sale. And the increasingly extensive films and series, guaranteeing the viewer that he can invest a good part of his day (or the whole day) in devouring a story. Only in that context are less and less extraordinary films such as’WICKED‘(160 minutes),’The Batman‘(176),’Oppenheimer‘(180),’ Avengers: Endgame ‘(182) … but none has intermediate. Of course, none lasts 215 minutes. Before there were intermediate, but as you are young you don’t remember it. Decades ago the films passed several times: the change of roll in the projector demanded a pause that was soon eliminated, when the projectors arrived that did not demand to interrupt the projection for the change of roll. And then, the arrival of digital cinema was loaded with that characteristic flicker in the image and sound that the oldest of the place identified with analog cinema. That is, the intermediate of ‘The Brutalist’ is completely unnecessary (unless we have the need to go to the bathroom and stretch our legs, which is not little), and still is done. ‘The Brutalist’ also looks like a movie from another time. A very thoughtful intermediate. The interesting thing about ‘The Brutalist’ is that it is not a cut, as was the case in old films, which happens when a film roll ends, or as it happened in some cinemas with the monstrous ‘also’The Moon Killer‘(206 minutes), when the room seemed convenient. It is a very thoughtful intermediate, which divides the film into two parts that differ in tone and style. The film is something in its first half, and after the intermediate, it is something else. The intermediate helps the viewer prepare for that change, and also reinforces the operatic quality of the film: because in the theater and opera they continue to be intermediates. Everyone loves intermediate. This apparently inconsequential aesthetic decision has become one of the hallmarks most celebrated from the film. It is being said that it is a way of recovering cinema as a total experience, which forces us to comment on what we have seen, to consider what we expect from what remains, and see the film as more than a mere procedure of going to any room To consume passively. Along with his celebration of the mastodontic formats And his classic and precious style, ‘The Brutalist’ has become, beyond an admirable film, a cinephile party. In Xataka | If you think Spanish cinema does not have enough nudes, look around: the nudist cinema lands in the rooms

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