Japan/Toyota announces a new EV battery

5 July 2023 by Jeremy Wright

Climate

Toyota has announced this week, that it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes.

“For both our liquid and our solid-state batteries, we are aiming to drastically change the situation - current batteries are too big, heavy and expensive,” said Keiji Kaita, president of Toyota research and development. Solid-state batteries have been widely seen as a potential gamechanger for electric vehicles.

And Prof David Bailey, from Birmingham University said “If it is a genuine breakthrough it could be the holy grail of battery vehicles.”

Watch this space...

minuteshttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/04/toyota-claims-battery-breakthrough-electric-cars

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Max Berghouse @ 2023.07.06 8:17 AM

Anything that reduces the size of current batteries with some extended range US SUV’s and trucks weighing in at about 4short tons would be very useful
So would be a focus on greater safety for batteries.

Fires and explosions of batteries seems to be a repressed problem in media and perhaps this is inherent to current developments in battery technology

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