{"id":96861,"date":"2019-10-01T07:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/tesla-patents-new-liquid-cooled-charging-connector"},"modified":"2019-10-01T07:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:42:36","slug":"tesla-patents-new-liquid-cooled-charging-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/tesla-patents-new-liquid-cooled-charging-connector","title":{"rendered":"Tesla patents new liquid-cooled charging connector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vGf7NWrI01U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tesla has filed for a new patent on a design for a liquid-cooled charging connector, like the one used at its Supercharger stations.<\/p>\n<p>With the advent of faster-charging electric vehicles, charging station manufacturers need to develop higher-powered DC fast charger and those machines generate more heat that needs to be dissipated.<\/p>\n<p>When introducing its new V3 Supercharger, Tesla fixed this issue for the cable with a new \u201csignificantly lighter, more flexible, and more efficient\u201d liquid-cooled cable than their previous air-cooled cable found on the V2 Superchargers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has filed for a new patent on a design for a liquid-cooled charging connector, like the one used at its Supercharger stations. With the advent of faster-charging electric vehicles, charging station manufacturers need to develop higher-powered DC fast charger and those machines generate more heat that needs to be dissipated. When introducing its new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}