tomp wrote:
It's amazing that the new spec is 10 times the original USB. Before you know it they will probably come with a whole house generator attached.

Tom,
In addition to the cables, USB has a + power wire and a ground wire. USB was designed to be a data communication nterface with can provide to client components. There are two types of USB cables, standard cables which can be used for data communications and charging and dedicated charging cables. In the later type of cables, data wires are not used.
This is one of “charging” type of usage, ie, two wire power cable with USB c endpoint. Like David said, they need beef up the power wire.