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> However, BYD does not expect series production in the near future. That's the most important part of this article I believe.
by louwrentius 2y ago
> However, BYD does not expect series production in the near future.
That's the most important part of this article I believe.
- Animats 2y agoYes. Solid state battery prototypes do work and are available as expensive prototypes, but nobody has a low-cost volume production process yet. Here's the lab-scale process of making a solid state cell, from the Fraunhofer Institute.[1] This is how different battery chemistries are tried. Honda has announced that they have a demo version of their solid state battery pilot plant in test.[2] There are low-detail pictures of the interior of the plant. Hyundai has announced that they will show their prototype solid state battery on March 9. They have built a pilot plant. They're thinking motorcycles before cars. EHang demoed a version of their flying car with solid state batteries a few months ago.[3] They got 48 minutes of flight time. (EHang's flying car is a scaled-up battery powered quadrotor drone with 16 props. They've been flying them for years now, but flight time was too short for it to be useful.) CATL says that the maturity of the process is at 4 on a scale of 9.[4] Large amounts of money are being spent in multiple countries to push this technology through to production. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5SVrp8N-1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5SVrp8N-1M [2] https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/new-tech/2025/january/honda-solid-state-battery-factory-plans/ https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/new-tech/2025/january/ho... [3] https://www.ehang.com/news/1137.html https://www.ehang.com/news/1137.html [4] https://www.batteriesinternational.com/2024/11/11/catl-bet-on-solid-state-becomes-reality https://www.batteriesinternational.com/2024/11/11/catl-bet-o...