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Comment #18923224
You're correct - On a high level, our technology is based on pulses that are fully adaptive, and their parameters are adjusted by the AI controlling the charging.
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Comment #18916551
You're absolutely right; our business model is to license the technology to manufacturers (OEM, Tier 1, etc) - not B2C to anyone with an EV.
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Comment #18916541
Sounds like you know the struggle :) In the battery industry there's a saying; liar liar battery supplier. That definitely doesn't help things move fast! Automotive OEMs do move sl…
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Comment #18916383
Hi! I'm one of the founders at GBatteries - I’ve partially answered this in another comment, so will copy paste portions. We've demonstrated 5 min to 50% charge, 10 min to 100% cha…
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Comment #18916327
That's correct, we're not able to fast charge at these levels without approval from the OEM because of the limits they have built. We need to either be integrated inside of the veh…
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Comment #18916100
Hi, I'm one of the founders at GBatteries - sorry, the article had a mistake on publishing; should be 5 minutes for that example.
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Comment #18916064
Hi! I'm one of the founders at GBatteries, please let me try to clear that up. We've demonstrated 5 min to 50% charge, 10 min to 100% - I’ll edit this to include a demo that we’ve …
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Comment #8494537
That would be my oversight - we tested it but didn't post it. Will update today! With the test the 15" MacBook lasted for around 4 hours, BatteryBox on its own did about 2 hour 20m…
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Comment #8494511
Our intention is definitely defensive rather than offensive.
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Comment #8494460
Hey - I'm one of the founders, maybe I can comment on this. You're completely right, first sale doctrine is something that would be applicable in a case like this (at least to my k…
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Comment #8494447
Animats, your idea is great and it's something we considered a lot when we were thinking about the connector. We almost went and did it. However there were a couple of problems wit…
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