Toyota’s Breakthrough in Electric Car Batteries: Small, Light, and Affordable – News JVTech

2023-07-07 17:15:02

News JVTech ‘They’re too big, heavy and expensive’: Toyota thinks it’s made a breakthrough for its electric car batteries

Published on 07/07/2023 at 19:15

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Toyota continues to make progress on its solid-state batteries. While great progress was made a few weeks ago, the Japanese manufacturer now indicates that these new batteries will be deployed across the brand’s entire electric range.

Toyota is making colossal progress on its electric cars

Keiji Kaita, president of Toyota’s research and development center, assured, according to comments collected by the Financial Times, that current batteries are “too big, heavy and expensive” and that their goal as a brand is to radically change these adjectives inherent in the component. The engineer also claimed to have made a “significant step forward” in the development of these energy reserves. And these improvements today allow Toyota to speak of 1,200 kilometer batteries that recharge in 10 minutes.

Depending on the brand, the breakthrough lies in ensuring that these batteries will be long lasting and allow them to reduce in size, weight and cost, whether in solid electrolyte or lithium batteries. A technology that should be operational in electric cars in 2027. However, first, he looks more at their usefulness in hybrid engines.

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Nevertheless, in recent months, there has been an increase in the news related to solid electrolyte batteries, which promise greater autonomy and very short recharge times. Toyota is also one of the brands that makes the most promises regarding its developments.. However, they did not provide specific details in which they talk regarding densities or energy costs, but rather general concepts.

Batteries that, for the moment, only dream on paper

Nissan was one of the first brands to announce that it had a development of solid-state batteries capable of adapting them to the production of a mass vehicle. In South Korea, LG, Samsung and SK On have received financial support from the government to advance their research. In addition, for its part, Samsung has also set a date for the arrival of these components on the electric car market: 2027. In Germany, BMW recalls that during the next decade, the solid-state battery will be the standard and the transition will begin in 2027as offered by Samsung or Toyota.

Among Toyota’s claims, two things are surprising. The first is that he talks regarding producing three million electric cars in 2030.of which regarding half will carry these solid electrolyte batteries. The second is that at Toyota they emphasize that this technology will come first on their hybrid vehicles. Surprisingly, although logical, since the brand has already warned that it does not see the electric car as the only way forward.

Photo credit: Toyota

However, Financial Times reporters doubt that Toyota’s conservatism in switching to electric cars benefits the brand. They point out that the continuous and slow improvement of what is already known may be too apathetic a path for disruptive and above all innovative technology. At Clean Technica, the opinions are more or less the same, since they also doubt the timetable and the arrival of Toyota in time to regain the ground they have lost. So far, his steps with this technology have not been the most successful, but it seems that, little by little, the plans of the Japanese manufacturer are advancing, all the same, towards the electric car.

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