During the We, Robot presentation, an animation playing on the screen behind Elon Musk showed how quickly the Cybercab can charge.
Tesla briefly showed the Cybercab's charging speed during last week's We, Robot event. With 35% left in its battery, they showed an animation of the Cybercab wirelessly charging at 19 kW. The Tesla Cybercab won’t have a physical charging port. Elon Musk announced that the only way it will be able to charge would be through a dedicated wireless charging pad, but the Tesla boss didn’t say how quickly it would charge.
The animation showed that with 35% left in the battery, the car started charging 19 kilowatts, which after a few seconds went up to 21 kW and may have kept climbing, but they no longer showed it. That’s nowhere near as quick as the manufacturer’s Superchargers, but it is quicker than the home chargers that it currently offers, which top out at 11.5 kW; it’s on par with what we know current wireless EV chargers are capable of.
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