Solid-state batteries for EVs at least 10 years away

[BeerParty]

In an InsideEVs article about upcoming EVs with solid-state batteries, I thought this quote was telling.

Research firm BloombergNEF projects solid-state batteries to account for just 10% of global EV and battery storage demand by 2035. The exact path to scalability and commercialization still looks murky, and the initial rollout could be concentrated in premium EVs.

So even with all the latest hype, we are still at least 10 years away from seeing solid-state batteries for EVs become mainstream.

 

[pwrofgrayskull]

Definitely makes sense to me.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Yeah. There’s some breathless speculation about SSBs for the Scout based on what Scott said in Munich, but the full story is far more nuanced. First, he didn’t say PowerCo/QuantumScape, he said PowerCo, which doesn’t build SSBs or even Semi-Solids. Second, another spokesperson gave a different answer a bit later, saying no contracts for batteries had yet been signed. QS isn’t in production, they’re in cell-level testing.

The Mercedes report is always misread as they’re ready to put their testing SSBs into production. No. Mercedes themselves have said they don’t expect to have production vehicles with SSBs until after the end of the decade, and at that point it’ll be in the most expensive vehicles, not in readily-available vehicles.