Toyota Motor Company is the latest automaker delving into solid-state battery technology, vowing to mass produce the safer and more energy dense cells in four years.

The Japanese automaker has recently changed its tune about building BEVs and is now claiming solid state batteries will be in vehicles starting in 2027.

Source: Electrek: Read The Article

PSR Analysis: This sounds really good, but Toyota has been talking about solid state batteries since the mid 1990’s and has promised their introduction several time already. We need to be cautious about this as Toyota also has said that their new ammonia engine could bring the end of EVs (see next article). Toyota is late to the EV party and is now sending mixed signals.   PSR

Guy Youngs is Forecast & Adoption Lead at Power Systems Research