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Hydrogen fuel cells or engines are a useless joke. Toyota REALLY needs to be thinking more about power generation with Hydrogen and then electric cars so that their vehicle production can be universal across the world. Electricity is the most versatile form of energy and can be produced using lots of natural resources. I get it.....Japan has limited natural resources and the seawater around them is abundant (thus hydrogen), but the hydrogen vehicle makes zero sense literally anywhere else in the world and you're a GLOBAL COMPANY Toyota.
Also with all of the saltwater around them you'd think they'd be working on sodium-ion battery technology and how to utilize the salt they extract during the hydrogen production to be used in batteries, but no.....keep making ICE engines for some stupid reason. FFS Toyota.
Well they have announced that they have a solid state battery that should be ready for mass production in 2028. They haven't put all their eggs in 1 basket
They've been making claims about their solid state battery for years. It's always a few years away.
When was the first article about productivity? Actually curious
Here is an article from July 2017. 6+ years ago they were "right around the corner". I know they've talked about it before that, but that's just one example of Toyota being "no seriously we're almost there" on this supposed tech that I could find while on mobile.
The problem isn't the battery tech. They've made the battery. They just can't figure out how the hell to mass manufacture it for a reasonable cost to compete with Lithium Ion.
I hope they succeed and take over the world of EVs by storm, but there are only so many times they can claim to be "right around the corner" before you start to wonder if they'll ever actually get it.
When is it due according to what Toyota says in the article?
2015