$14.95 Inc GST
A 30w car charger is the one that keeps up with a modern phone on a short drive. Thirty watts is enough to take a flat handset past half charge in about half an hour, which is the difference between arriving with a usable phone and arriving with a warning triangle.
The old 5W cigarette-lighter plug put back roughly a tenth of a battery in that same half hour, and plenty of them are still in gloveboxes. A 30w car charger is not a small step up from that, it is a different experience — and the gap is widest exactly when it matters, on the short trips where there is no time to make it up.
Two ports share that output: a USB-C port carrying Power Delivery and Quick Charge 4.0, and a USB-A port carrying Quick Charge. One phone on the USB-C side gets the full rate. Two devices at once share it, which is the honest answer rather than the marketing one.
Fast charging is not one thing. A quick charge car charger that only speaks Qualcomm’s protocol does nothing special for an iPhone; one that only speaks Power Delivery does nothing special for an older Galaxy. This 30w car charger carries all three of the standards that matter in Australia, which is why it works on whatever handset gets into the car.
Power Delivery is the standard almost everything speaks now — recent iPhones, Pixel, and most Android handsets negotiate PD over USB-C and will take their full rate from this baseus car charger up to 30 watts.
Quick Charge 4.0 is the Qualcomm side, and it is backward compatible with QC 3.0 and 2.0, which covers a lot of older Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO and Motorola handsets that never supported PD.
AFC is the Samsung fast-charge protocol, also supported here, which matters on Galaxy handsets from the era before Samsung moved to PD.
That breadth is the real argument for a quick charge car charger over a cheap 5W plug: every phone that gets plugged in charges at its own best rate, without anyone having to check which standard it speaks.
This is the part most listings skip. A 30w car charger cannot fast-charge anything through a cable that will not carry it. A USB-C to USB-C lead is required for Power Delivery; a USB-A to USB-C lead will fall back to Quick Charge or to ordinary 5V depending on the handset.
No cable is included with this 30w car charger. That is deliberate rather than mean — most people already own three, and the one that comes in the box is usually the one that gets left at home.
A 30w car charger does not need to be large, and this one is not. A compact barrel that sits almost flush in the socket rather than a long stalk that catches a knee. In a car with the socket low in the console, the short body is the whole reason to choose one quick charge car charger over another, and this baseus car charger is on the short side of the range.
This is a Baseus unit, not a copy of one, and a 30w car charger from a maker with a reputation to lose is worth the two dollars over an unbranded barrel. Where a product really is a branded item we say so and the feed carries that brand — the aftermarket naming rules here exist for parts made to fit someone else’s device, which is not what this is.
This 30w car charger is stocked in Melbourne and ready to go — order before 10am and your baseus car charger ships the same day via Australia Post with insurance, backed by our 180-day warranty and a team who can confirm it suits the phone you own.
Stocked here, not shipped from overseas. Order your 30w car charger today and stop arriving on four percent.
Compatible with any 12V or 24V vehicle socket, and with:
What you need to supply: a cable. USB-C to USB-C for Power Delivery; USB-A to USB-C or USB-A to Lightning for the other port. None is included.
Two devices at once: supported, and the 30 watts is shared between them rather than doubled.
Device and brand names above are used only to describe which fast-charge standard applies.
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