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Business Wars Daily

How Big of a Deal is Toyota’s Battery Breakthrough?

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today is Thursday, July 20, and we're looking at Toyota vs. Nissan.

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In the electric vehicle market, we may be looking at something of a breakthrough.

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Earlier this month, Toyota announced that it was working on a new type of EV battery that was

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safer and faster to charge than current batteries on the market. If all goes to plan,

1:21.7

the batteries will cut the size and cost of power units for Toyota's EVs in half, the company said.

1:29.2

That's quite the powerful announcement, and here's why.

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Currently, EV batteries use liquid lithium ion electrolytes to power vehicles,

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but those liquid batteries have plenty of well-documented shortfalls,

1:42.6

a tendency to burst into flames flames for one. But Toyota's

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new batteries will be so-called solid-state batteries. Those can hold much more power than liquid

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batteries, allowing them to be smaller, and they can charge really quickly, according to the

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