„Game Changer“: Honda-Solid-State-Elektrofahrzeuge mit 620 Meilen Reichweite kommen dieses Jahrzehnt | Honda behauptet, dass seine künftigen Elektrofahrzeuge nach 2040 mit voller Ladung sogar bis zu 776 Meilen weit kommen werden. Allerdings gibt es ein großes Problem.

From the article: The carmaker’s executives laid all of this out during a briefing late last month in Japan. The presentation came a week after Honda announced it built a pilot production facility where it will try to figure out how to make solid-state batteries sustainably and at a mass scale. Test production will begin next month.

It all sounds excellent, and it’s undeniable that progress will be made, but Honda execs didn’t hold back on significant roadblocks that still lie ahead. The biggest issue is that the prototype battery cells the automaker is experimenting with are tiny and can’t be used in any vehicle–100 times too small, in fact.

“That’s why we have created the pilot line to identify and deal with any issues in terms of size and mass production as soon as possible,” said Takeshi Ueda, chief engineer of innovative research excellence at Honda R&D. “We have to make our prototype battery 100 times bigger. We are working on how to bring them to the mass production phase.”

This would indeed be a game changer, no so much for the huge range, but for the towing.

Currently there are no EVs (that I’m aware of) with a decent achieved capacity when towing a large trailer. If this gets you to 2-300 miles on a charge, fully loaded, then I’ll be buying immediately, and selling the diesel.

Is this going to be like flying cars? We’re always just ten years away?

And what bizarre numbers. They’re saying, „in the next ten years, EV range will double what it currently is! And we can get another 156 miles of range if we are talking about 16 years!“?