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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. So driving around town, stuck in stop-and-go rush hour freeway traffic or coasting down hills will recharge the battery. Designed by Pininfarina VinFast VF 8 gave the designers at the famed Pininfarina studio a blank sheet.

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If we wanted to recharge this from 110V domestic service we would need to pull 10,800,000/110 = 96,000 amps. 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.