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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Guess no one remembers the fail whale

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Toyota president Koji Sato also admitted that production volumes of solid-state batteries were likely to be small when the company rolls them out in electric vehicles as early as 2027. “I think the most important thing at the moment is to put out [the solid-state batteries] into the world and we will consider expansion in volume from there,” he said.

SOOOOO not really close.. another press release hyping this up. How small is SMALL? Hundreds?

They clearly are still having trouble scaling production of this technology. It has EXISTED for some time but isn't of use to cars if they can't make hundreds of thousands of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, it isn’t unusual

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As has been pointed out MANY times on the current CAST items if you have an accident large enough to go through the replaceable parts the crash bars and it DOES damage the cast it is a write off anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Repost of a my previous comment on this elsewhere:

They have been “claiming”/ “announcing” this breakthrough since 2017 repeatedly. They STILL haven’t figured out how to mass produce it affordably to make it meaningful. They keep pushing out the date for when it will arrive for many years now.

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