Featured Toyota makes progress on all-solid-state batteries

Toyota has made progress on its all-solid-state batteries with the groundbreaking of its Idemitsu plant for its sulfide-based solid-state electrolyte. They expect limited production in 2027 or 2028.

@Salamander_King, what does that Japanese figure say? I see a 2030. I personally don’t expect Toyota to go mainstream on solid-state batteries before circa 2035.

Toyota partner Idemitsu breaks ground on all-solid-state EV battery plant

 

AI translated the figure before @Salamander_King got a chance.

So, I expect the pilot plant capacity to be on the order of 1 GWh/yr. That is around 15,000 BEVs a year. This means we will see limited production of all-solid-state EV models in 2027–2028. Some of these will be HEVs and PHEVs.

We should expect mainstream production, such as 100 GWh/yr, to enable around 1 million BEVs a year in the early 2030s.

Note that Toyota’s all-solid-state battery technology uses a lithium-sulfide solid-state electrolyte (also including some other elements). Competitors of this technology include Samsung and Solid Power.