Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars
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Re: Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars
#2Near empty article. Probably about mass production of sodium anode batteries I guess.
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#3Japanese firm believes it *could* make a solid-state battery...
The key word here is obviously *could*.
Add one more to the pile of claims and beliefs floating around that have yet to transform into viable products.
I have been a Toyota fan from way back. I have owned a number of their vehicles. But in my mind, they lost a lot of technical credibility when they tried to apply political influence in a short sighted attempt to steer the marketplace toward hydrogen.
This was really just a thinly veiled effort to prolong the marketplace viability of the internal combustion engine --- to the detriment of the global environment.
Re: Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars
#4While Toyota has been busy looking for silver bullets that will solve imagined problems, Tesla has been scaling hard with good-enough technology. Their Q2'23 production is a hair under 2 million units per year, so they're already a mid-size OEM (the size of BMW, MB, Audi, etc).
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#5a solid-state battery with a range of 1,200km (745 miles) that could charge in 10 minutes or less
For that range I assume the battery holds 150 Wh/km * 1200 km = 180 kWh. Charging it in 10 minutes would require about 1.1 MW. That's a lot of Watts.
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#6Time for our regularly scheduled monthly battery "breakthrough" PR campaign!
Does this one walk on water?
Re: Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars
#7It’s funny seeing these battery breakthrough articles repeatedly. It’s been years of them now :) I’m always curious who the science writers are who can’t exercise critical thinking and ask a few tougher questions or review a battery breakthrough rubric.
Re: Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars
#8Time for our regularly scheduled monthly battery "breakthrough" PR campaign! Does this one walk on water?
It's a better battery bulletin, it has no legs
Re: Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars
#9Toyota position on EV for the last 10 years 'we will have these super uber amazing batteries soon, and then we will magically make amazing cars in high volume quickly'.
Re: Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars
#10Japanese firm believes it *could* make a solid-state battery... The key word here is obviously *could*. Add one more to the pile of claims and beliefs floating around that have yet to transform into viable products. I have been a Toyota fan from way back. I have owned a number of their vehicles. But in my mind, they lost a lot of technical credibility when they tried to apply political influence in a short sighted at…
Japanese firm believes it could still exist in 10 years