Our 2016 Kia Soul EV is able to charge at about 7 KWatts using our charger at home, a level2 EV charger built into the SolarEdge solar inverter. It has a CCS plug.
Today I charged the car while out and about, using the other charging port on the Kia: CHAdeMO, a DC high power charging standard. I should put "high power" in scare quotes as it is quite pedestrian by today's standards, it is a standard from years ago.
- CHAdeMO managed to deliver 28 KWatts to this car.
- Twenty. Eight. Kilowatts.
- Four times more power than the CCS charger at home.
It charged from 62% to 90% in 22 minutes, when it began to slow as the battery approached full. I unplugged it at 90% and continued on my merry way.
