Toyota Electrified Car Will Use Solid-State Batteries For Long Range – Quicker Charging, CleanTechnica
Toyota Electrical Car Will Use Solid-State Batteries For Long Range & Quicker Charging
This story about electrical car plans at Toyota was very first published on Gas2.
Toyota is not providing up on the hydrogen fuel cell technology that powers the Mirai, but is busy working in the background on an all-electric car with solid-state batteries that suggest long range and swift recharging. The plan is to introduce the car, which will be built on an all fresh chassis, to the Japanese market in … 2022. Yep, that’s five years away.
Toyota spokesperson Kayo Doi tells Japanese daily news source Chunichi Shimbun the company will not comment on specific product plans but does intend to commercialize solid-state batteries by the early 2020s.
Solid State Batteries Are The Future
No one doubts that solid-state batteries are the future. Substituting the liquid electrolyte found in today’s lithium-ion batteries will eliminate the risk of fire and explosion associated with current battery technology. That danger, while low, remains a concern for many people considering the purchase of an electrified car.
To limit such risks, electrical cars today must use sophisticated cooling systems to stabilize the temperature inwards battery packs. Such systems add cost, weight, and bulk to the cars. Solid-state batteries will not need such elaborate cooling systems, which will help bring down the cost of building an electrical car. As an added bonus, they are capable of being recharged in much less time than a conventional lithium-ion battery.
Researchers such as John Goodenough have been attempting to build a sturdy, inexpensive solid-state battery for decades. Toyota telling it will do so is one thing. Actually doing it is fairly another. Israeli startup StoreDot says it has a solid-state battery with a range of three hundred miles that recharges in five minutes. Henrik Fisker claims his fresh EMotion electrical car will go more than four hundred miles on a single charge and then recharge in just nine minutes. That car is set to hit the road in 2019.
Fresh Electrified Car Division At Toyota
Toyota created a fresh partnership last year that combines talent from Toyota Industries Corporation, Aisin Seiki Company, Denso Corporation, and Toyota Motor Company to design an electrified car. The slimmed down unit began life with only four people – one from each corporation – in order to trim bureaucratic “noise” and produce quick results.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda said at the time, “Over these past few years, which we have placed for strengthening our planting of seeds for the future, we have taken such measures as establishing the Toyota Research Institute, made Daihatsu a fully possessed subsidiary, and have begun work to established an internal company responsible for compact vehicles for emerging markets. The fresh organizational structure for EVs is a part of this effort. As a venture company that will specialize in its field and embrace speed in its treatment to work, it is my hope that it will serve as a pulling force for innovation in the work practices of Toyota and the Toyota Group.”
China Wags The Dog
Stirring words. Now let’s see how they translate into reality. Toyota, like all major carmakers, is focused on the thriving automobile market in China. It plans to introduce an electrified version of its C-HR sport utility vehicle using conventional lithium-ion batteries there in 2019, spurred in part by the insistence of the Chinese government that at least 10% of the fresh cars sold in the country be EVs by that date. It also brought its very imaginative Concept-i to the two thousand seventeen CES display in Las Vegas last January.
Toyota’s purpose of building electrical cars by two thousand twenty two is laudable, but a lot of water will have gone under the bridge by that time and the rest of the world’s automakers will not be sitting on their arms in the meantime. It would not be brainy to count Toyota out, but its pony for the EV sweepstakes is more than a little late leaving the barn.
Toyota Electrical Car Will Use Solid-State Batteries For Long Range – Quicker Charging, CleanTechnica
Toyota Electrified Car Will Use Solid-State Batteries For Long Range & Quicker Charging
This story about electrical car plans at Toyota was very first published on Gas2.
Toyota is not providing up on the hydrogen fuel cell technology that powers the Mirai, but is busy working in the background on an all-electric car with solid-state batteries that suggest long range and quick recharging. The plan is to introduce the car, which will be built on an all fresh chassis, to the Japanese market in … 2022. Yep, that’s five years away.
Toyota spokesperson Kayo Doi tells Japanese daily news source Chunichi Shimbun the company will not comment on specific product plans but does intend to commercialize solid-state batteries by the early 2020s.
Solid State Batteries Are The Future
No one doubts that solid-state batteries are the future. Substituting the liquid electrolyte found in today’s lithium-ion batteries will eliminate the risk of fire and explosion associated with current battery technology. That danger, while low, remains a concern for many people considering the purchase of an electrical car.
To limit such risks, electrical cars today must use sophisticated cooling systems to stabilize the temperature inwards battery packs. Such systems add cost, weight, and bulk to the cars. Solid-state batteries will not need such elaborate cooling systems, which will help bring down the cost of building an electrical car. As an added bonus, they are capable of being recharged in much less time than a conventional lithium-ion battery.
Researchers such as John Goodenough have been attempting to build a sturdy, inexpensive solid-state battery for decades. Toyota telling it will do so is one thing. Actually doing it is fairly another. Israeli startup StoreDot says it has a solid-state battery with a range of three hundred miles that recharges in five minutes. Henrik Fisker claims his fresh EMotion electrified car will go more than four hundred miles on a single charge and then recharge in just nine minutes. That car is set to hit the road in 2019.
Fresh Electrified Car Division At Toyota
Toyota created a fresh partnership last year that combines talent from Toyota Industries Corporation, Aisin Seiki Company, Denso Corporation, and Toyota Motor Company to design an electrified car. The slimmed down unit began life with only four people – one from each corporation – in order to trim bureaucratic “noise” and produce quick results.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda said at the time, “Over these past few years, which we have placed for strengthening our planting of seeds for the future, we have taken such measures as establishing the Toyota Research Institute, made Daihatsu a fully possessed subsidiary, and have begun work to established an internal company responsible for compact vehicles for emerging markets. The fresh organizational structure for EVs is a part of this effort. As a venture company that will specialize in its field and embrace speed in its treatment to work, it is my hope that it will serve as a pulling force for innovation in the work practices of Toyota and the Toyota Group.”
China Wags The Dog
Stirring words. Now let’s see how they translate into reality. Toyota, like all major carmakers, is focused on the thriving automobile market in China. It plans to introduce an electrified version of its C-HR sport utility vehicle using conventional lithium-ion batteries there in 2019, spurred in part by the insistence of the Chinese government that at least 10% of the fresh cars sold in the country be EVs by that date. It also brought its very imaginative Concept-i to the two thousand seventeen CES demonstrate in Las Vegas last January.
Toyota’s objective of building electrical cars by two thousand twenty two is laudable, but a lot of water will have gone under the bridge by that time and the rest of the world’s automakers will not be sitting on their palms in the meantime. It would not be clever to count Toyota out, but its pony for the EV sweepstakes is more than a little late leaving the barn.