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Cloak and dagger? Hot air?
Time will tell
The bulk of Toyota’s new roadmap focuses on achieving significant improvements in the energy density, cost competitiveness and charging speeds of liquid electrolyte batteries. Their goal is to produce three different battery types, with each one’s performance optimized for a particular EV design.
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Solid state batteries are not a Toyota thing it’s the next big thing that everyone has been working on. They already exist but scaling them up for industrial scale plus reliability, longevity etc are what’s holding them up.
Meanwhile chemistry changes has slowly driven energy density energy density up along with charging times etc. There are batteries in existence that fully recharge in seconds the issue is longevity and reliability.
There are salt water electrolyte batteries out there too
Whilst waiting for my tyres the other day, another 4 people sat waiting silent, however I mentioned the 20mph limit, soon got on to the topic of hydrogen powered cars the way forward, seems not everyone is convinced with electric, well with most of the people I speak to anyway..
Solid state isn’t so much a new battery built from the ground up, rather the use of some form of pure Silcon, carbons or metal, as the batteries Anode material, instead of most commonly used graphite.
Semisolid state batteries, which use a gel type material for rapid ion diffusion are also another type of solid state battery. Battery manufactures see semi solid state batteries as offering nearly the same benefit as solid batteries but with an advantage: They are closer to commercialization and will allow 600 -700 miles between charges. WeLions new battery can go upto 621 miles and is expected in 2025or sooner. Nio will use WeLion.
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