Tesla Wireless Charging Platform teardown reveals a lot of copper and perhaps less thermal paste than you might expect

[Redaktion]

The electric car brand Tesla also now sells a wireless charger that purports to rationalize its ultra-premium price through its ability to do what Apple could not with the scrapped AirPower project. The "Cybertruck-inspired" accessory's ODM has achieved this via a fascinating arrangement of coils and more, as revealed during a new online teardown.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tesla-Wireless-Charging-Platform-teardown-reveals-a-lot-of-copper-and-perhaps-less-thermal-paste-than-you-might-expect.706171.0.html

[Swizzy]

65W in for 15W charging? Seems like a massive waste.

[S.Yu]

65W in for 15W charging? Seems like a massive waste.

I believe the goal of Airpower was to allow as many devices to simultaneously charge on the mat wirelessly as you can physically fit. From the looks of this one, you can charge a maximum of 4 devices on the mat simultaneously, without having to worry about placement...technically.

[Potatolord]

Thats a drop that has to be expected with wireless charging there's no direct connection between the divice and the charger so it becomes incredibly less efficient that combined with so many coils means you can charge like 4 things at 15 watts, watch jerry rigs video he's better at explaining it than a news article about his video