USB C POWER ADAPTER FOR MACBOOK PRO PRO
What that means is that the same USB-C R3.1 external battery that could power your MacBook Pro could also power an e-bike. In fact, the European standard e-bike is about 250W of output(although there are many ways of cheating this that are being exploited by e-bike manufacturers). That means a typical e-bike will require 72-144W of power to be charged.
My mind immediately went to e-bike chargers, which are typically 36V-48V and 2-4A on the low end.ġ40 Watts is more powerful than most baseline ebike chargers
Regulators are calling it USB PD R3.1 spec. In fact, there isn’t even a cool name for it. The standard is so new that USB-C cables that are compliant aren’t even on the market yet, and it’s part of the reason you can only charge at that speed with Apple’s $49 USB-C to Magsafe adapter cable, not directly to the USB-C ports that charge below 100W. It’s one of the first such adapters and certainly the first laptop to use the standard. But what’s hugely more interesting is that it’s USB-C Power Delivery 3.1 compliant. But this could be the biggest step change in the electronics industry this year.Īpple chose the gallium nitride (GAN, via Verge) format to allow it to be in a smaller package, and that’s certainly something we can get behind. Along with all of the fanfare during yesterday’s MacBook Pro launch, one thing I wasn’t expecting was a 140W USB-C power adapter.