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Fred Lambert of Electrek posted this article today. https://electrek.co/2020/12/11/toyota-electric-car-solid-state-battery-10-min-fast-charging/ He's a bit skeptical of Asia Nikkei''s writeup of developments at Toyota.
Asia Nikkei is very reliable source. It's the equivalent of the Wall Street Journal in Japan. Toyota promised solid state batteries for the now postponed 2020 Olympics. They were supposed to power people hauler vehicles for the Olympics Games, not commercially available retail vehicles. But, presumably, if people haulers perform well, it wouldn't be long until commercial vehicle variants appeared.
Toyota is a notoriously conservative company. It doesn't bring anything to market until it's proven to be 100% reliable. With the Olympics rescheduled for 2021 and with Toyota and Panasonic forming an joint venture earlier this year for EV battery development, I wouldn't be surprised if Toyota makes a big splash next year by announcing commercially viable, auto solid state batteries (ASSB) available in a 2022-23 timetable. Here's the joint venture announcement between Toyota and Panasonic. https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/20/toyota-panasonic-form-battery-manufacturing-partnership/
I'd lend a fair amount of credibility to Lambert's article. Toyota is notoriously conservative, but it's an enormously proud company and much more of a vehicle of national pride than GM and Ford are here. With the world's attention on the Olympics, I wouldn't be surprised if Akio Toyoda, grandson of the founder of Toyota and current CEO, makes an announcement about the near term availability of commercially viable auto solid state batteries. This doesn't mean that QuantumScape and others don't have a shot. It simply means that ASSB might be here sooner than we thought.
Asia Nikkei is very reliable source. It's the equivalent of the Wall Street Journal in Japan. Toyota promised solid state batteries for the now postponed 2020 Olympics. They were supposed to power people hauler vehicles for the Olympics Games, not commercially available retail vehicles. But, presumably, if people haulers perform well, it wouldn't be long until commercial vehicle variants appeared.
Toyota is a notoriously conservative company. It doesn't bring anything to market until it's proven to be 100% reliable. With the Olympics rescheduled for 2021 and with Toyota and Panasonic forming an joint venture earlier this year for EV battery development, I wouldn't be surprised if Toyota makes a big splash next year by announcing commercially viable, auto solid state batteries (ASSB) available in a 2022-23 timetable. Here's the joint venture announcement between Toyota and Panasonic. https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/20/toyota-panasonic-form-battery-manufacturing-partnership/
I'd lend a fair amount of credibility to Lambert's article. Toyota is notoriously conservative, but it's an enormously proud company and much more of a vehicle of national pride than GM and Ford are here. With the world's attention on the Olympics, I wouldn't be surprised if Akio Toyoda, grandson of the founder of Toyota and current CEO, makes an announcement about the near term availability of commercially viable auto solid state batteries. This doesn't mean that QuantumScape and others don't have a shot. It simply means that ASSB might be here sooner than we thought.
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