Driving With Dunne Podcast: Boom! Flash! Battery Kaput. What Just Happened? With Guest John Voelcker
When Fast-Charging Goes Haywire
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“You hear a boom and maybe you see a flash and the car stops working. It’s essentially a circuit breaker because what is coming down the cable is not what the car was expecting.”
- John Voelcker, EV Expert & Contributing Editor @ Car and Driver
Your instrument panel flashes an update: “Your battery charging session is over. Your battery is not operational.” What? Call a tow truck. EV owners are experiencing how a charging experience can go wrong. EV expert John Voelcker joins its this week to walk us through what happened.