Toyota Announces Breakthrough in Solid-State Battery Technology

Tuesday, July 4, 2023, 11:12 p.m

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Toyota announced that it has made a breakthrough that will allow it to build a solid-state battery with a range of nearly 1,200 kilometers.

It could be recharged in just 10 minutes, writes The Guardian.

The costs production of batteries, their size and weight would be halved.

How solid state batteries work

Solid-state batteries use a solid electrolyte instead of a liquid one to transport ions between the battery’s electrodes and offer clear benefits over the lithium-ion batteries now fitted to electric cars.

Toyota announced on Tuesday, July 4, that it was able to simplify the trial of production of the material from which solid-state batteries are built, seeing the discovery as a huge advance that could lead to decreased charging times and extended autonomy.

“For both liquid-state and solid-state batteries, we aim to drastically change the current situation, where batteries are too large, heavy and expensive. We aim to halve these factors,” said Keiji Kaita, president of the research division Toyota.

Toyota estimates it will be able to manufacture solid-state batteries for cars by 2027, according to the Financial Times.

Solid-state batteries were seen as the thing that could revolutionize the electric car market, promising to reduce charging times, extend autonomy and reduce the risk of fire associated with lithium-ion batteries.

Solid-state batteries have so far been considered too difficult to build, but also too expensive, and their use has been limited. Toyota believes it can simplify the production process and manufacture solid-state batteries at lower costs than lithium-ion batteries, writes digi24.ro.

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