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24 April 2018 | AutoData ESSAY 2025 » ELECTRICAL SUPPLY And so the newvehicle refueling busi- ness began to emerge. “We have enough people using electric mobility to justify all the necessary investment in infrastructure. This is happening today, and not in the future”, said Schoenrock during a visit to the ABB booth installed in the beautiful Balmaceda Park in the center of Santiago, Chile, during the local stage of Formula E, the new and main competition category of electric vehicles - and of which ABB is now the largest sponsor. COMING SOON It must be recognized: the speed of the advance of electric propulsion tech- nology is similar to that of Formula E cars, where the average speed is 135 km/h in urban streets and a car exchange occurs in the middle of the race on account of the charge the battery. As a comparison with Formula 1, with its hybrid engines, runs the average per race generally around 200 km/h on closed lanes. And a pit stop of just a fewseconds is enough to fill the tank. In other words: waiting eight hours for your electric car to become available for use is, in a sense, the same as piloting a Formula E dreaming about the performan- ce and practicality of a Formula 1. The next generation of loaders, called high performance, aims to speed things up. Systems already available in the ma- rket offer voltage from 400 to 800 Volts generating power of up to 350 KW, which is enough to charge the battery of an electric car in fourminutes for one hundred kilome- ters of autonomy. This means that in twelve minutes it will be possible to charge the batteries to run three hundred kilometers. It is a reasonablewaiting time andmuch lower in the stopwatch to the systems used today in malls, dedicated stations in cities or roads, among other initiatives. And there is still room to evolve in the short term, warns Schoenrock: “This quick operation depends on the ambient temperature and the vehicle’s technology, because during the process the battery becomes hot and the software No need to wait all night, lady: the new high- performance chargers can deliver up to 300km in just 12 minutes Disclousure/MBB