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Re:With the 745-Mile Solid-State Battery, Toyota Just Became... by simondotau on Sunday July 23, 2023 @06:50AM (#36834187)
> For one, no serious manufacturer currently even proposes a battery technology if it doesn't meet the most basic of the mentioned criteria.

I don't think Toyota would qualify as a serious manufacturer of battery cells. Has Toyota ever manufactured battery cells before? Not battery packs, but battery cells.

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Re:With the 745-Mile Solid-State Battery, Toyota Just Became... by semi-extrinsic on Sunday July 23, 2023 @02:17PM (#36838089)
AFAIU Toyota is the main owner of Primergy EV Energy, together with Panasonic. They have been manufacturing both battery cells and packs for the Prius and other hybrids. They used to mainly make NiMH cells, but I think nowadays mostly Li-ion.

This new battery tech is done in another subsidiary that is also co-owned by Toyota and Panasonic.

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Re:With the 745-Mile Solid-State Battery, Toyota Just Became... by panick21_ on Sunday July 23, 2023 @05:10PM (#36839872)
This is the mostly the same kind of partnership as Tesla and Panasonic and people never stopped saying Panasonic is actually making the cells. The actual cell technology is Panasonic and the partnership is about manufacturing.

For Toyota to build up its own end to end manufacturing of battery cells is something quite different.

Its doable, as Tesla has shown, but its not easy. Specially with a new technology.

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Re:With the 745-Mile Solid-State Battery, Toyota Just Became... by fomine3 on Sunday July 23, 2023 @09:28PM (#36841965)
Toyota group company started making Ni-MH since 2021 https://www.toyota-industries.com/news/2022/08/30/005417/ https://www.toyota-industries.com/products/automobile/batter...
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