Toyota announces Solid State Battery breakthrough 745 Mile Range, 10 Minute Charge, Half Weight / Double Density

It's not progress. It will fail big time, wait for it. Biden (Lyin Biden) and who is ever actually in charge can push it all they want, it's NOT practical, period.

The 24 downvotes I got here indicates people thought I was serious?

I was just mocking the “if it isn’t 100% perfect, it’s actually bad” line you get from the skeptics of many things.

The US grid releases much much less carbon and significantly more power than it did 20 years ago. Batteries are the main missing piece.

I work in batteries and led commercialization for one of Toyota's main start up rivals in solid-state battery development.

1) solid-state is great and offers the promise for both higher safety and greater energy density (more energy per unit weight / volume), but the devil is always in the details

2) to someone's earlier comment on 240V charging... this is completely independent of battery chemistry. We charge batteries all over the world with different voltages, amps, and frequency supplied by the grid.

3) solid-state batteries, for the most part, will not be suited for grid storage applications and as such will be much better off powering electric vehicles & mobile power applications (i.e. anything that moves)

4) batteries & EVs are here to stay. They are 3x more efficient than ICEs and can be nearly fully decarbonized if we push for a cleaner grid and supply chain (they are getting close in some areas)

Lithium polymer is Li-ion. It is an outdated term originally used to describe polymer packaging. Unfortunately, that term has stuck some 20 years later. There are also polymers used in some types of solid-state batteries that could outperform Li-ion but it is all in development and nowhere near prime time.

Incredible development. Toyota-Honda-Subaru will be shipping entire robotic factories that assemble customizable Solid State vehicles priced for 3rd World consumers.

There are lots of companies out there developing the nextgen batteries. The current lithium ion batteries will probably be obsolete by 2030. In addition to solid state batteries, there are also big advancements coming in salt/saline batteries and lithium air batteries. Solid state probably has the best chance at becoming the industry standard because of range and charging performance. But the saline batteries have the potential to be very cheap and also have great potential for energy storage on both a commercial and residential level.

Toyota has actually fallen way behind on EVs and has stayed with hybrids and ICEs at the expense of having a full line of EVs ready to go to market when the other automakers have theirs ready. I think pursuing solid state batteries is just a way for Toyota to convince shareholders that they just need to be patient because Toyota will have a superior product when they enter the market.

The beauty of electric is that there's many sources: coal, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro. Some are clean and some are not. But at least we won't be at the mercy of single countries who can screw up the oil market and cause the price of gasoline to double plus cause inflation. Unless you work in oil, electric is 100% great for America and I dont understand why so many on the right are fighting it.

Coal accounts for about 20% of electricity generated in the US.

Your statement would have been slightly more accurate if you had said, "In reality, it is a renewable energy-powered leaf blower."

Without a reasonable way to charge and without a suitable range, EVs have been impractical for the vast majority of drivers.
By 2026 finally we will have a suitable EV that's a no brainer.
Japanese military industries has spent over 60 years developing robots that make their own offspring, more robots, and integrate thousands of robots into robotic flexible manufacturing plants to assemble complex toxic weapon systems deep underground and at sea.
Deploying thousand of robotic localization factories on every nation on Earth is unique and places the Japanese EVs decades ahead of other countries.

You are one looney mother. When Fukushima melted down, Japan had to use U.S.-made robots to get images from inside the reactors. Japan didn't have any robots that could do that.

Japan is good at making cutesy toy robots and assembly-line robots but not so good at producing robots with other real-world applications.

"Tough guys don't do math. Tough guys deep fry chicken for a living." -Stand and Deliver

Apparently, American patriots don't drive electric. American patriots fund Saudi Arabia and Russia and stink up American air.

Stupidest post in the history of retards. No nation will reveal military secrets until time of war.

Also Fukushima reactors was designed and built by GE Nuclear next to the San Jose Airport in the United States.

40% of us energy does not come from renewables.. it's 21% really easy to Google this:

Nuclear isn't renewable... It may have no carbon emissions but that doesn't mean it's rentable... And I am a big fan of nuclear

For fun go back and read the battery articles from 30 years ago about all the battery changes that will be revolutionary. Basically only Li-ion made it. Over the past 15 years we have had dozens more battery breakthroughs . But so far we have just seen slow steady refinement.

And it isn't just batteries. Go read up on display tech. LCDs and OLEDs made it. The other half dozen never made it out of the prototype phase...

And it should be pointed out that in general if you have a 700mi battery, you would almost certainly be better off cutting it in half and having a 350mi battery that weighs half as much and costs a half as much. That is where the mass market is not cars you can drive for 10 hours straight...

Toyota, for the past decade or more, has been chasing hydrogen fuel cells as the technology to replace ICEs. Even ignoring the problems at the vehicle level, clean hydrogen generation and distribution infrastructure are enormous barriers to acceptance. Most industry analysts are baffled at Toyota's technology emphasis.

Nothing to be baffled about. It's the the same reason cars are moving to EVs now: government money. The Japanese government has provided a lot of it in fuel cell research/development subsidies over the years. From 2014:

reuters.com

Japan readies fuel cell subsidies in bet on Toyota’s next big thing

Yoko Kubota, Maki Shiraki

Japan is readying subsidies to help Toyota Motor Corp and key suppliers take the lead in hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles that could top $400 million over the next several years if the most bullish projections for the tech...

Open link