This power bank is similar to others on the market but features radically different capabilities. It’s incredible, really. The 10,000 mAh engineering prototype can fully charge in 15 minutes instead of the hours usually required. That means the power bank is pulling and storing enough energy from a standard wall outlet at a rate that would recharge a smartphone in three minutes.
If that's a 3.7V nominal chemistry, then that'll need around 150W from the wall. Quite a bit more power than the 12-20W most small USB warts can provide.
The efficiency of the system even allows for the design of radically smaller power chargers, reducing the size of a standard 100W power converter by a factor of six times.
Well, that's good then. Obviously anything that shrinks onboard chargers is of interest to motorcyclists, though they provide no detail on what they're doing to shrink the chargers.
it revealed an [10000 mAh] engineering prototype power bank to demonstrate its advancements.
Here's a conventional 9600 mAh battery bank for comparison, built with 3 LG 18650 3200 mAh cells. It looks like their engineering prototype is in the right ballpark.
Notably absent from the PR piece are any hard numbers beyond charge times of 100 seconds, 180 seconds, or 10 minutes.. energy density, power density, cost, cycle count, etc are all unknowns.
But hopefully that will come in time.
