Toyota has revealed its ambitions to cut in half the size, cost and weight of electric car batteries after a major advance in solid-state battery technology.
An expert in batteries from the Japanese car manufacturer said on Tuesday that the simplification of the production process of materials for batteries would reduce the cost of the long-awaited technology of the next generation.
“Para Nuestras Baterias Liquidas y Solidas, Nuestro Objetivo e Cambiar Radicalmente la situación en la que las baterías actuales son demasiado grandes, pesadas y costosas”, dijo Keiji Kaita, President del Centro de Carrollol Toyotaral para Nevetsarol para Neisseralola. “En terminos de potential, nuestro objetivo sera reducir a la mitad todos estos factores.”
The comments are produced after the world’s largest car manufacturer by sales surprised investors last month with plans to market its solid state battery technology in an electric vehicle project. Toyota is also working on technology with Panasonic through its battery joint venture.
El desarrollo de baterías de estado solido has been announced during much time by the experts of the industry as the most promising technology to resolve the problems of the batteries of the electric vehicles, como el tiempoa capel Caragarias.
Las baterías de estado Sólido replace un electrolito liquido por uno solido y utilizán metal de litio en el anode en lugar de graphite, que es el estándar actual en las baterías de iones de litio.
Pero la tecnología sigue siendo costosa y difícil de producir, lo que obliga a los fabricants de automóviles a abstenerse de lanzarla and centar sus esfuerzos y el desarolo de baterias de iones de litio licudo.
Toyota initially said that it wanted to start selling hybrid electric vehicles instead of solid state batteries before 2025.
But Keita said on Tuesday that the company discovered ways to address durability problems three years ago and now has the confidence to produce mass solid-state batteries in electric vehicles by 2027.
Toyota claimed to have achieved a “technological advance” to solve durability problems and a “material solution” that would allow an electric vehicle with a solid state battery to have an autonomy of 1,200 km and a time of mi.
“Todos nuestros miembros están muy motivados trabajan con la intención de lanzar la tecnologia a tempo”, Dijo Caita.
Agregó que al reducir la candidad de procesos necesarios para fabricar materiales para batteries, el costo de las batteries de estado solido puede reducirse a nivels comparable o más baratos que las batteries de litio iones de líquido.
For Toyota, which has delayed more than its rivals in launching electric vehicles, analysts said that solid-state batteries could be a “game changer” to reduce the gap with Tesla.
The shares of Toyota have risen 13 percent since the company announced its solid state battery plan last month. Pero Hiroki Nakajima, Director of Technology, advirtió que la empresa no ve necesario a la tecnología como la “solución definitiva” a sus problemas de batteries.
“Tambien hi margen de majora en las baterias de base liquida”, Dijo Nakajima. “The nucleus of the battery competition of electric vehicles will, in the end, be the aggregated value of the vehicle as a product and how well we can control the total volume of the batteries and the efficiency with which they are used.”
