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Smaller, lighter, potentially faster

There's a community of Tesla fans that are always on the lookout for new innovations by the Californian electric car maker. Their latest find is a new model of Supercharger that is liquid-cooled (including the charging cable itself), rather than air-cooled, allowing it to both be smaller and run cooler. This has many benefits, from small things, like making the charging cable lighter, to big things, like the potential to make charging even faster, since keeping things cool is one of the big challenges when dealing with this much power.

Some of the new Superchargers have been spotted at a station in Mountain View, California, and Youtuber 'KmanAuto' (real name: Christopher Allessi II) made a great little video that even shows how things are different when seen with a thermal camera (Tesla fans are nothing if not thorough and engineering-minded!).

Here's the video, which shows the new station design as well as some of the visible changes, like the new handle button and the air vents at the bottom of the stations: