Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries

Re:Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries by sbm_au on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:40PM (#43349575)

I compare solid-state battery manufacturing, to extreme ultraviolet lithography.

I remember reading about attempts to commercialise EUV lithography in the early 2000s (in a paper magazine!) The same issues that SSB have now - some lucky examples from tiny yields in the lab, but the devil's own problem to scale it and develop reliable manufacturing.

ASML was able to commercialise it in 2018. I expect the timeline for SSB to be about the same, twenty years or so. I think we will see it but not until the 2030s.

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Re:Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries by tim333 on Thursday March 13, 2025 @09:17AM (#43353009)

BYD say they expect to begin 'demonstration use' of all-solid-state batteries by 2027.

>Large-scale adoption of all-solid-state batteries may not happen until after 2030, BYD's battery business CTO said https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1iq5ukh/b...

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