Tesla's NEW 4680 Battery VS Toyota's Solid State Battery!

toyota is a company that has quite a few things to regret in the electric vehicle world despite being one of the early pioneers of evs it failed to build on the success of its iconic plug-in hybrid the prius however toyota is now serious about evs and it wants to compete with its solid state battery is a solid-state battery what toyota needs to compete with tesla and return to its former glory as the king of evs join us as we explore the exploits made by both toyota and tesla in their battery technologies toyota is an excellent company with lots of assets resources and capital in the automotive industry it is the largest vehicle maker globally and controls two of the best known brands toyota and lexus it is also the second most valuable car company behind well tesla the japanese automaker got a lead in electric cars with its hybrid electric vehicle the prius which helped sell more than 15 million hybrids however toyota is in the unenviable position of looking into the electric vehicle market from the outside this current position was due to a series of missteps by the company leadership over the years toyota's top brass was influenced by its ceo akio toyota who would probably like to erase from the records his statements about electric vehicles which he claimed were overhyped his thinking was that since electric vehicles were still charged with power coming from plants that produced carbon emissions electric vehicles weren't the environment saviors they are claimed to be due to this flawed thinking toyota spent years chasing after hybrids where it recorded some success and hydrogen fuels this was at the expense of progress on purely electric vehicles it must be painful for the leadership team to see tesla being the poster boy of electric vehicles but it seems toyota is making moves to course correct like the mass producer it is toyota has turned on the fire hose of alternatively fueled vehicles promising more than 70 new models by 2025 depending on how toyota counts 15 of the new models will be purely electric toyota has selected the brand name bz which means beyond zero for its upcoming electric line it has revealed the first vehicle in the line the bz4x at the shanghai auto show it is tentatively set for release in its home country of japan and china this year and the rest of the world in 2022 toyota will base the bz line of vehicles on the etnga ev platform which is built in collaboration with subaru however toyota needs more than just an ev platform to compete in the electric vehicle world toyota is literally behind tesla in everything in electric vehicles tesla has built a strong ev brand that is known all over the world it is accrued deep knowledge of ev manufacturing processes has invested in factories and other facilities that are tailor-made for producing electric vehicles going as far as installing gigapresses in several countries tesla is competing with extras like autopilot full self-driving where toyota is not a top player tesla is also at the forefront of battery technology toyota needs something to compete with if it is to catch up with tesla for this toyota is banking on two things its new solid-state battery which we here will feature in an electric vehicle this year perhaps the bz-4x and attempting to slow down the progress of electric cars through legislation a prime example of amazon's and blue origins tactics just what do solid-state batteries bring to the table for toyota and can it beat tesla's new tablets 4680 battery solid-state batteries are supposed to be safer because they do not use traditional electrolyte batteries this reduces fire risk in theory as the electrolyte is solid which renders them no risk of exothermic reaction during charging which causes thermal runaway is this such a breakthrough in batteries this is debatable considering that elon musk always points out that the risk of eevee fires is simply overhyped as they rarely occur compared to fires from internal combustion engine vehicles for gasoline cars there's one fire for about every 1300 gasoline cars in our case there's one fire for every 8 000 cars mind you tesla has been innovating to mitigate heat in its tablet's batteries because of the design the 4680 battery has improved thermal characteristics with electrons facing less resistance as they move to the cathode another advantage of solid-state batteries for toyota is charging speeds they are supposed to supply up to 80 charge in just 15 minutes is that so hot considering that tesla superchargers can do the same in about half an hour already and the tables battery is promising considerable gains in charging times toyota will have to rethink its supposed advantage one of my goals this year was to learn more about business and investing however looking for the info i needed was tiring as they were scattered all over until i discovered morning brew i now spend my mornings with morningbrew a free newsletter that nicely sums up everything happening in the business world in five minutes so instead of scouring social media in the morning and liking yesterday's food pictures i am learning new things and becoming more productive every day of the week morning brew content is engaging and relevant better than the dry and dull financial news on tv i've already learned so many things that will be useful to me for the rest of my life the thing is there's no real reason not to join morningbrew it's free and it takes like 15 seconds to sign up by signing up you help support this channel so click the link in the description below to subscribe to morningbrew today there is also the problem of current charging infrastructure not meeting up with the fantastic promised charging speeds of solid-state batteries while scientists may be able to charge them fast in their lab replicating it in the real world is not a walk in the park public chargers will have to be able to supply the massive amount of power required these things are very expensive to set up how does having a fast charging battery but no suitable charger to take advantage of its sound toyota will attempt to sell longer ranges as solid-state batteries have larger energy densities than traditional batteries meaning they can hold more charge again this has nothing on tesla's tables battery which promises to store more energy tesla used larger battery cells that pack more active materials resulting in 20 more range for the same battery pack size solid-state batteries are also meant to be lighter in weight still there are a couple of serious obstacles toyota has to deal with before slapping solid-state batteries on its cars obstacles that tesla has already worked around solid state batteries are costly in fact they cost three times more per kilowatt than what traditional lithium-ion batteries go for how toyota plans to keep its cost down for their evs to be as competitive as tesla's remains to be seen in contrast tesla's tables battery will reduce the cost of battery production due to the materials tesla is using nickel the manufacturing process is also less complicated resulting in faster production times this brings us to another problem toyota will have with its solid-state batteries scale tesla can make its own batteries and can source from other suppliers to meet its needs however there is no existing large-scale manufacturer for solid-state batteries yet for the mass production toyota is known for toyota will have to look hard to lock in production partners that can quickly build up a supply chain that is capable of maintaining a steady supply of battery packs apart from all that there are many unknowns where solid-state batteries are concerned how will they hold up in real world use cases will they be durable how much degradation will set in after 10 years of repeated use how easy would disposal be then there is a more significant non-technical hurdle for toyota coming from a position of not being a household name in battery electric vehicles will consumers trust toyota enough to put their hard-earned money on a new kind of battery if tesla were to debut the solid-state batteries in their car it has the reputation to back it up musk would even take to twitter to build up anticipation and rely on his outsized fan base to amplify the message it remains to be seen if toyota can command the same level of trust in its new solid-state batteries from all indications tesla is keeping off solid-state batteries or keeping it low-key instead it is concentrating on improving the traditional lithium-ion battery clearly toyota cannot catch up with tesla yet using solid-state battery prowess alone so it is taking another route to deter the whole ev industry politics despite working to bring electric cars to the market toyota has quietly become one of the strongest opposition voices to an all-out transition to electric vehicles as strange as that may sound the company is furiously lobbying in washington against the aggressive moves of the current administration to promote the adoption of evs it argues that hybrids and hydrogen-powered vehicles should be taken more seriously rather than purely electric vehicles in india toyota executives criticized the government's target of 100 ev sales by 2030. over in mexico the company is dragging the government to court over fuel efficiency rules tell us what you think of toyota's efforts on evs in the comments section below

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Length: 9min 46sec (586 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 29 2021