China throws wireless fast charging expansion into trouble

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Xiaomi has been boasting of his great fast charge 200W just like other Chinese manufacturers like OPPO they do the same with their respective technologies. The bad news is that “Daddy Status” can clip the wings of these two brands, and anyone who wants to follow them, before they take off.

As each company focuses its efforts on demonstrating how quickly a 4,000 mAh battery can be fully recharged, the Chinese government is beginning to see this as a risk to the integrity of devices and users. Curiously this news appears after Xiaomi will confirm that the batteries of your mobiles degrade up to 80% in a short time using this fast charge.

Fast charging systems, whether by cable or over the air, for users can save a lot of waiting time, but it seems that the risk involved in it is not entirely acceptable for China.

China wants to reduce wireless fast charging

The official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as it is called in the Asian country, published the “Interim provisions on radio management of wireless charging equipment”. Under this long name lies the decision to limit the nominal transmission power of imported portable and mobile wireless charging equipment sold and used. According to the document, they will not be able to exceed a power of 50W, very far from the 120W that they have already shown mark as Xiaomi.

Is mobile wireless charging dangerous? So far nothing has shown that the objective of the Chinese government is not so much to ensure the safety of its citizens, as to regulate the orderly use of radio spectrum resources through wireless charging equipment. The key is to avoid harmful interference to various legally developed radio services and to maintain some control over the electromagnetic waves that share the airspace.

The risk that is talked about is that a power of wireless load too high can cause security risks for aviation, shipping, astronomical observation, etc., but we doubt that a large number of wireless chargers could cause such “chaos”: However, marking 50W as the power ceiling will prevent ” possible scares ».

Beyond the Chinese manufacturers, there really are not many brands that have opted for these loading speeds, so at the moment this problem only affects the eastern firms that we all know: Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, live, OnePlus the realme.