Mumbai, March 30 -- With yet another stride made in EV technology, BYD recently launched their flagship Super e-Platform, featuring flash-charging batteries, 30,000RPM motor, and new silicon carbide (SiC) power chips. The platform upgrades core electronics, unlocking charging speeds of 1,000kW (1mW), which is faster than Tesla's v4 supercharger that tops out at 500kW for electric cars. Charging at a speed of 10C, the BYD superchargers can pump 2km range in a second, effectively providing 400km range in five minutes. This is similar to the time taken to refuel ICE cars. A deployment of 4,000 such chargers is on the charts for China.

The Super e-platform also delivers a single-module, single-platform motor that would deliver over 300kmph t...