With The 745-mile Solid-state Battery, Toyota Just Became A Force To Reckon With::Toyota has been criticized for not being the most proactive manufacturer out there, but with this new solid-state battery, it just changed the game.

  • reallynotnick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    1 year ago

    the first vehicles with this battery are expected to be hybrids instead of all-electric vehicles. Toyota claims it will be ready for sale in 2027 or 2028.

    This tells me we probably need to wait until 2030+ for this supposed 745mile battery.

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      1 year ago

      745 mile range on the battery and they’d make it a hybrid? What a waste!

      Need a more complicated drivetrain, a transmission, an engine block, and a fuel tank. All of that added weight and complexity when you have a 745 mile range without it?

      Why? What is their reasoning?

      • reallynotnick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’ll be a much smaller solid state battery in a hybrid, they wouldn’t put enough batteries in it to hit 745 miles. I assume they would use at most 10% of the cells a 745mile vehicle would need and it could be under 5% of the cells needed.