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Flash Drive: 2023 VinFast VF 8

Clean Fleet Report

Or three years of charging at Electrifying America stations for either Level 2 or Level 3 DC fast charging. Designed by Pininfarina VinFast VF 8 gave the designers at the famed Pininfarina studio a blank sheet. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership.

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Aerovironment, one of the leading makers off fast charging systems, offers a version of their PossiCharge fast charging system that delivers 600amps DC, the same amount of current as the maximum available to three single family homes. The cost of putting these on major freeways would be very high but the technology already exists.