Which EVs actually charge fastest - Avg peak kW, DC only At Monta, we've integrated 60,000+ EVs into our platform. This gives us deep telemetry insights from the vehicle side: battery state, charging state, and odometer. It also gives us a clear understanding of which vehicles our users have and use in each charge session. We filtered out edge cases (low charge volumes, limited sample sizes) and compared average and peak kW performance per vehicle. 🔍 Turns out, not all fast-charging EVs are created equal: The XPENG G9 tops the list with an impressive 142 kW average and 177 kW peak. Even premium models like the Porsche Taycan average just 81 kW, despite a high theoretical peak. Popular choices like the Tesla Model Y show solid mid-tier performance. This kind of data matters. Real-world charging experience is more than headline peak kW. UPDATED: Renault Captur E-tech was faulty categorized; thanks for pointing it out
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Casper H Rasmussen that’s not US data right?
It’s interesting data, but the question of “which car charges faster” is a bit misleading. The table reflects how buyers of those cars are using specific infrastructure, charging in certain weather conditions, and following particular behavioral patterns to achieve those numbers. If you take a Taycan, Hyundai, or Kia to a fully operational 300kW 800V charging station, with battery preconditioning and a state of charge below 30%, you’ll consistently hit well over 200kW charging power and finish in under 20 minutes—significantly faster than Tesla or BMW in the same conditions. Also, from a driver’s perspective, fast charging only matters during stopovers on long-distance trips. Mercedes cars, for instance, even offer an option to enforce slower charging. If users consistently use that option during 2h mall visits, they’ll appear lower on the list—not because the vehicles are not fast charging ones, but because they’re designed to be smarter about it.
This is a chart that tries to push an agenda. There exists only Peak rate and Average rate of charge, Peak Average is an oxymoron
Casper H Rasmussen is this normalized by charger peak kw capacity? Ie - all chargers were 200 kW and above? Because I often wonder how the shape of a charge curve varies based on charger capacity. Does a given ev have the same shape on a 250kw charger vs a 120kw charger. Or what if an ev with a peak of 180 kw is sold heavily into a country that has a bunch more 120kw chargers, and a different ev with a peak of 180kw is sold into another country that had a lot of 200kw chargers. They both could have same charge curve but the latter would show higher peaks and averages.
This doesn't make sense. Teslas peak routinely at 200-250kw at their v3 chargers. Something must be broken with your chargers, and that's what you are measuring here, not the performance of the cars.
This is fascinating data, Casper! I'm curious—what factors do you think play the biggest role in the discrepancies between theoretical and real-world charging performance for EVs?
Peak power as a stand alone indicator of „fast charging“ is worthless - the data needs to be combined with consumption of the vehicle and state of charge. The reason why a user gets into his car is, that he wants to get from A to B, always. Means he need to drive a certain distance as fast as possible. That why P3 created the #P3ChargingIndex several years ago combining all those information and ranked the vehicle according to their recharged range in a certain time window - this allows to compare „fast charging“ from a user perspective. And for sure charging curves and consumption are measured close to real world scenarios. Get in contact with Christian Daake or Markus Hackmann to combine more data and get the correct results for fast charging.
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