Toyota EV with solid state batteries planned for 2022
26.7.2017
If these new batteries can be produced cheaply enough, they could push electric vehicles into the mainstream with recharge times claimed to be just a few minutes, an energy density twice that of current lithium-ion technology, and greatly improved crash safety properties.
*** Toyota has reportedly been researching solid state batteries for years, and German automakers BMW and Volkswagen are understood to also be working on the technology...
Last year Toyota and its research partners, including the Tokyo Institute of Technology, announced they had found a material suitable for use as a solid electrolyte. Despite that, the technology is still a long way from mass production...
