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Or 1300 horsepower


That's just a rough conversion for 1 megawatt. I was curious about the actual voltage and current they were using, since the article didn't say much.


The values posted above cannot be far from the real values.

Perhaps they use something like 700 A at 1400 V.

It is unlikely that they use a voltage over 1500 V, because the semiconductor switches used in the converter become much more expensive at higher voltages. A current of 700 A or even 1000 A can be easily handled by a single IGBT module. There are much bigger semiconductor switches that can handle several thousand ampere currents.


I should have been clearer, I did a web search and found other articles, which based on marketing information from the company, say it's 1000A and 1000V.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/byd-confirms-1000v-super-e-pl...




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