Comment by calmbonsai
5 months ago
CAR! Not bus. Apples vs Oranges.
Also, that "efficiency" measurement is not overall Pout/Pin. It's merely measure of charging speed and they do touch on that mentioning the lack of a "break-out box" etc. to determine the actual numbers.
One can absolutely achieve the same charging speed with induction charging, but with a much higher power input and at a greatly reduced vehicle efficiency due to the much higher on-vehicle mass dedicated to charging the battery.
This is also a bit of rigged game as they're using the oldest wired-charging infrastructure against the latest wireless. They do touch on that. The older wired standard has a much lower power-factor duty-cycle.
That said, it, otherwise, was a good test as they also took into consideration ambient temperature and battery heater.
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