Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption
Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption
The potential to significantly reduce pollution could be huge.
Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption::The potential to significantly reduce pollution could be huge.
That's great. Build it. Until this hits the showroom floor, I don't care. Electric cars have been consistently 10 years away for the past like 30 or 40 years. For every other automaker, electric cars are now here today. Except Toyota, where they are still 10 years away. And for me, The electric car isn't 10 years away, it's parked in my driveway. So as far as I'm concerned, this is all just press bullshit to try and discredit current EVs and buy Toyota time to continue pushing gas and hybrid.
And as for the whole thing of people not buying EVs, that's twofold. One, people are hurting right now, and people in bad economic condition get really price conscious. The second gas prices go up they'll all be trading their gas guzzlers for EVs. Second, the simple fact is a lot of EVs on the road kind of suck. And other than Tesla, the public charging infrastructure is awful so if you like road trips you're going to have a bad time. Given that in another year other automakers will mostly be switching to Tesla charge ports, unless you're buying a Tesla there's some logic in waiting.
2010 investigating solid state
2013 mentions working on solid state
2017 ETA commercialize by Early 2020s
2019 Will establish a joint venture with Panasonic by 2020 no ETA on batteries
2023 June commercialization in 2027-2028
Note that further interviews state: limited production starts in 2027 The 745 and 10 min charging are worded as "could enable" IE will NOT be in the 2027-28 initial release.
They also plan to introduce it in hybrids first.
It still blows my mind that Toyota single-handedly made hybrids a very successful thing and yet squandered that position to Elon effing Musk. Toyota could’ve been THE market-leader for EVs while still making a killing with the Prius and ICE cars. They’d have a solid lock in all markets.
Toyota has one of the best reliability reputations of any automaker and yet anyone in the EV market (like I was recently) passes them over because they have zero models to sell. Instead of parlaying the Prius’ R&D into a viable EV too, they’ve left money on the table. Hyundai has gone all in and is selling a ton of EVs. I see more of theirs / Kia’s on the road than anything else (besides teslas).
These "breakthroughs" are Toyota "Full-Self Driving next year!" fluff and I'll believe it when it's shipped and performing.
Really feeling like "new battery technology" is the vehicular equivalent of "holographic storage" for computers.
People have been talking about it for decades, there have been promising demos and absolutely no commercial application. :(
Meanwhile:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americans-aren-t-buying-evs-122809686.html
"among those respondents who did purchase a car or truck in the last 12 months, only 3.71% bought a new fully electric model, compared to 27.32% who got a gas combustion vehicle and 13.53% who opted for a new hybrid.
Used vehicle buyers chose to buy gas-fueled cars, per the study. According to response rates, 41.91% preferred to buy a car or truck with an internal combustion engine, whereas 4.51% and 9.02% went for used fully electric and hybrid varieties, respectively."
Excellent make it then makr a cheaper, lighter option with half that range.
"The company has estimated that vehicles boasting solid-state batteries could be available starting in 2027 or 2028."
Could be available a few years from now? Wake me up if that actually happens.
i work with electric go-karts, the OTL superleggero specifically. and ive worked with personal device batteries for a little over a decade...
Holy Fuck 10min charge times.
ever see those live leak videos of people touching power lines or trying to steal copper from a grounding rod?
this charging station better be fully autonomous.
its like when those teslas crash and burns. ever see a class delta fire? It's the equivalent to a light saber but in the form of Muk from pokemon. I cannot fathom trusting today's american drivers with that responsibility.
Toyota's latest battery technology appears to be a game changer! The developments in electric vehicles continue to improve. I'm interested to see how this affects overall performance and range. Toyota deserves credit for pushing the envelope! On a related issue, while we're discussing innovation, I've been wondering how to define the term "explain the meaning of the term confidentiality" of these technological advancements.
Yeaaahh, I'll press x to doubt, yet again.
First off, 745 miles range on a battery is a weird thing as batteries don't drive. Cars, bikes and the such do, batteries use mAH for example.
Second, any "revolutionary batter" is bullshit. Why? Because I've seen about 3625 revolutionary new batteries in the past 30 years, and 99.99% of them have been bullshit.
Batteries are pretty much at the upper level of what's possible with batteries as we currently have them, so either we switch to something revolutionary as antimatter batteries or something else esoteric, or wel'll be happy to add 5% to what we already got.