Tesla has filed for a new patent on a design for a liquid-cooled charging connector,
With the advent of faster-charging electric vehicles, charging station manufacturers need to develop higher-powered DC fast charger and those machines generate more heat that needs to be dissipated.
When introducing its new V3 Supercharger, Tesla fixed this issue for the cable with a new “significantly lighter, more flexible, and more efficient” liquid-cooled cable than their previous air-cooled cable found on the V2 Superchargers.
Now it looks like Tesla also made the connector liquid-cooled.
It’s not clear if this technology is currently used in the V3 Superchargers or if it’s going to be introduced in future Tesla charging stations, like the Megacharger for Tesla Semi.
Tesla claims that the new design is more efficient:
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