They could probably make 100K PHEVs with that. I don’t understand why don’t automakers do that. You can literally use it as an electric vehicle—a lighter one, at that—while in the city, and maybe fill it up 3-4 times a year for longer trips. Makes no sense to go full ev and have a huge pile of rare earth metals just adding weight to your car and almost never getting used.

I’m actually skeptical that could make that many in less than 7 years

What concept is that? Id sell all my organs for jt

meanwhile, California is banning new gas cars in 2035

This is what happens when you have a grifter nepo baby like Akihabara Toyoda running the company. “Self-charging hybrid” vehicles? Rigging crash tests? The guy just can’t stop lying. He tricked people into buying millions of dollars of scam car bundles and now they can only make 10k solid state batteries?

Every battery maker is developing solid states. Toyota makes it sound like they have it alone.

“Only”? I wouldn’t even believe “can” at this point, let’s wait till they have made at least one!

I have a feeling that Toyota is very politically fragmented. They must be a super calcified in their views with practically no new viewpoints and no real ambition to be cutting edge in any way. To be fair, I doubt that being “cutting edge” has ever been Toyota’s thing, but dragging their heels is pretty off-putting.

Honestly NMC as well as cobalt-free LFP batteries are already enough for this transition, range is good enough already, Norway has pretty much finished its transition to EVs, it’s mostly just up to governments in other countries to get things together at this point.

Solid-state batteries will never really become the end-all for EVs that it is hyped up to be, because EVs will be working out regardless of whether they actually scale up in a reasonable time frame or not.

lmao

Which comes first…Toyota’s solid state batteries or the new Tesla Roaster?

I’m looking forward to retrofitting.

Tbh this is actually more good news than bad. Solid state battery tech - if it lives up to even 70% of the hype - is the shift in battery tech that actually makes ev’s realistic for a lot of the people yet to adopt them. 10k cars is nothing to sniff at and is a huge investment. It’s all very well to have prototypes in labs and concept cars, but it’s only once businesses start selling them to the public that the real investment and rapid development happens.

So yeah, you can’t all buy one next year, but it’s significant they can be bought

Didn’t we just get a bunch of reports that ev demand is way squishier than expected. Why not wait until form and supply chain are built out by your competitors and hold onto your profits?

Is the average Toyota buyer willing to pay 1.5x the price, the upfront capital for a home charger, and rely on a patchwork of charging stations?

They will go under well before that. BYD and Tesla are taking over the global market at a rapid pace.