It would be possible to put in a voltage converter that would boost the 20 volts that’s relatively common for USB-C/PD devices to whatever voltage the battery pack needs to charge while increasing the losses on the charge.
A 200 watt charger for a 48 volt 20 amp battery would be okay, but it would take like five to eight hours to charge depending on what kind of losses are involved.
It’s pretty rare to see USB-C charger that can handle 200 watts on a single port. More common is like 120, so it would take closer to 10-12 hours to charge that battery with USB-C versus a barrel plug.
And even if the cable is able to handle the 200 watts or more, it would be on the user to remember that they can’t plug in their 15 watt charger and actually charge their ebike battery.
So once you take all of that into consideration, given that you’re going to need a separate charger specifically for your e-bike battery, then why would it even matter that it’s USB-C?
yup, my thoughts exactly, don’t really see a any benefit for using USB-C here. What would be good of course is to have any standard at all for these connectors.
It would be possible to put in a voltage converter that would boost the 20 volts that’s relatively common for USB-C/PD devices to whatever voltage the battery pack needs to charge while increasing the losses on the charge.
A 200 watt charger for a 48 volt 20 amp battery would be okay, but it would take like five to eight hours to charge depending on what kind of losses are involved.
It’s pretty rare to see USB-C charger that can handle 200 watts on a single port. More common is like 120, so it would take closer to 10-12 hours to charge that battery with USB-C versus a barrel plug.
And even if the cable is able to handle the 200 watts or more, it would be on the user to remember that they can’t plug in their 15 watt charger and actually charge their ebike battery.
So once you take all of that into consideration, given that you’re going to need a separate charger specifically for your e-bike battery, then why would it even matter that it’s USB-C?
yup, my thoughts exactly, don’t really see a any benefit for using USB-C here. What would be good of course is to have any standard at all for these connectors.