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    Solid-state battery reality check – Hyundai and Kia say not until 2030

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    1. nimicdoareu on

      The whole world is talking about solid-state batteries and their promise of longer ranges, faster charging, and improved performance for electric cars.

      However, Hyundai and Kia are cooling the hype a bit, suggesting that the widespread commercial availability of this technology is still years away.

      Some automakers are promising rapid rollouts, but Hyundai Motor Group believes that solid-state batteries won’t be ready for mass-market EVs until at least 2030.

    2. EroticVelour on

      2030 isn’t the far future anymore. It’s less than 5 years away. If it’s accurate, then there could be a flip in the story of EV batteries, and China may have made a bad bet putting all its eggs in the basket of Lithium Ion battery technology.

    3. mr_lucky19 on

      I’ve been hearing about solid state batteries for almost 10 years from Samsung to Toyota its always only a few a years away. I simply just can’t believe the hype anymore. You’d think they would have put these in phones by now before cars but alas still nothing.

    4. jefftchristensen on

      I am familiarizing myself more with solid state batteries. What would you say are some of the biggest advantages of these new solid state batteries? 

    5. STR675 on

      Is it maybe promoted by big oil?

      I’m just so skeptical of everything I guess so I have no justification for that but when I think who benefits from this news, the only group I come up with is big oil. Because “ohh there’s much better battery tech coming” just causes undecided folks to postpone a BEV purchase – silly to buy now when magical batteries are coming.

    7. crimxxx on

      In my I barely looked stuff up capacity, seems like a lot of companies are calling there batteries solid state today if they use some aspects of a solid state battery. Which to be fair seems to have advantages, but are not truly full solid state batteries, long story short because there isn’t good definitions for what can be considered a solid state battery yet, buyers beware.

    8. Disastrous-Form-3613 on

      Duh, during those 5 years some breakthrough can happen and we will get them sooner. Or not. We’ll see.

    9. Odin4456 on

      There’s some Chinese EV manufacturer who has an EV that goes 1300 miles using parallel battery circuits. Could you do this with a solid state battery?

    10. farticustheelder on

      Welcome to another SSB hype cycle. I remember Samsung taking its miracle SSB out of an MIT lab a decade ago intending to start mass producing within a year. That didn’t happen.

      A decade later we are seeing some SSB’s hitting really high end vehicles so Hyundai/Kia waiting 5 years for affordable SSBs seems to be reasonable.