whitex
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@krissrock , another way to explain it is this. Your car battery can only charge from a DC charger. Your car comes with a built-in DC charger (a.k.a. onboard charger) which is powered by AC from the outside of the car (from the EVSE, a.k.a. wall connector). This onboard charger is typically maxing out at between 6KW and 19.2KW. However, you battery can also charge up to 270KW from an external (not onboard) DC charger, which is what all the fast DC charging station are - they are just a much bigger version of what your onboard charger is. As a matter of fact, the original Tesla Superchargers were literally made out of 12 onboard chargers in a single supercharger enclosure (each onboard charger was 9.6KW, so times 12, the Supercharger had a max charge rate of 115.2KW).11 kW on baord charger is AC
DC charging is upto 270 kW - and my Macan has done 275 kW once…
this has nothing to do with the DC charger.