toyota developing magnesium vs lithium, page-3

10 years away - if the lithium blood vessel battery is viable within 4-5 years no one will care - if it took only 3 minutes to charge and had a range of 150-200km or more, all cars would be electric, providing the TCO was equal to or lower than petrol cars. Also, if this technology became viable whilest Obama was still president there will be fast charging stations built all over the US and futher tax incentives to move away from petrol. The US or China has to lead the way for EV's to gain in popularity.


The impact of Toyota’s paper will be felt primarily within the research community, says Srinivasan. Commercialization of magnesium batteries is more than 10 years away: “Once you have a breakthrough, meaning you have an anode, a cathode, and electrolyte, it takes maybe five years to reach the commercialization stage, and we don’t have all that with magnesium, so it’s going to take a while,” he says.