How many of you would be interested in a 1.5kW or 2.5kW fast portable charger for your Ola?
This would be if similiar size of the original charger but will charge your battery at 2x speed.
Another idea is for an adapter that can convert that you can plug into your scooter and any CCS-2 charger or Ather fast charger; this way, you can basically justcarry around just the adapter (sort of like a USB-C to Micro USB adapter, except for scooter charging)
If you’re interested in this, how much would you pay?
I know y’all probably have a ton of questions so I’ll answer a few
Is Ola bringing these?
A: No, this is not an Ola product.
Will fast charging damage my battery?
A. No, but if I had to explain why, it would be too technical for this post (perhaps I’ll put another post regarding that).
Is this an already existing product?
A. Not yet.
Will this void my warranty?
A. Technically no, since the scooter will not be able to tell the difference between this and say a hyper charger or the home portable charger but I assume no responsibility for this and it might void your warranty.
Can the adapter be used for Ather scooter with Ola charger?
A. An inverted adapter can be made but unless there is a demand, I don’t see any point.
Would I require a 3-phase connection for the fast charger?
A. No, but you’d require a a 16A plug instead of the regular 6A.
Will it be made in India?
A. Nope (FYI - Ola charger is made in China!)
Is this in production?
A. Not currently. Will check the feasibility of the product and provide a test video first.
How fast would the charging speed be?
A. This depends on a lot of factors - especially what Ola has done with MoveOS3 regarding hyper charger speeds but I’d assume you’d be able to cut down your charging time from 6.5hrs to about 3hrs with the 1.5kW charger.
Will this effect batter age?
A. No, you can use this daily without any damage to your battery? (Why?, Again, it’s technical for this post, maybe another one)
Good read. Just one doubt though. These EV chargers are not doing just a single-way power transmission like mobile charges, they read data from the scooter and communicate accordingly. I’m not sure if an adapter is possible and if yes, why has no one come up with such an adapter yet? Just curious. Kindly clarify, I could be wrong.
I would suggest to have a portable charger designed with selectable ( variable) power range like 0.75 kw, 1.5kw, 2kw and 2.5 kw connected to a 15 A domestic power supply socket.
I wouldn’t say it’s not possible but that charger would have to be really small as there isn’t any empty space to put it that I can think about it, so it doesn’t make sense.
Besides, the boot has a lot of space i keep the charger in it anyway right?
This is a really interesting take on it as it would be useful to set how quickly you want to charge but unfortunately EV chargers usually (if any) have this feature. Off the shelf battery chargers would be able to do it but they’d need to communicate with the scooter as well.
Now you got it
If we compromise little boot space and incorporate charger circuit we dont have to take out charger open tangled cables and start charging only thing is that proper ventilation has to be provided which is not difficult. Thanks for the reply.
Ola should introduce a 2kW - 3kW portable charger for faster charging at home.
But Charging port adaptor is not a good idea from the technical point of view. Presently, there is 1 contact point between the female and male charging port, using an adaptor, it will be 2 contact points, Female -(1)-> Adaptor -(2)-> Male. During Fast Charging, flow of high current will produce more heat.
This is kind of true, but these adapters are designed for such large currents anyway so it’s totally fine. You can check the Tesla adaptor which works the exact same way as I described
Fast chargers are only meant to be used in emergency… however you want to defend or explain… the matter of science is it will degrade the battery unless and until.the batteries are divided into sections…
You are right, it would but totally depends on how “fast” you charge.
For reference, our home charger is 750Wp but hypercharger is 4kW+.
The cells can take 0.7C charge at max (at 4kW, they have crossed that limit) so a 2.5kW portable charger is well below the maximum of the scooter, this not affecting the battery life.
