Comments on: Toyota will be a Leader in Solid-State Battery Tech- Report

By: Ali Khan

Ali Khan — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 10:56:28 +0000

In reply to Khurram.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/07/12/toyota-shows-off-solar-prius-with-860-w-output-from-34-efficient-cells/

The solar Prius was only available in japan. The article states:

“The model was only available in Japan and lacked the oomph to charge the vehicle’s battery for a range of more than 6km.”

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/toyota-prius-solar-panel-charge-efficiency/

Articles from 2019 talks about how Toyota tried again (in 2019) to revive the solar concept. We still have heard nothing. Just like Toyota to start something and not finish it. Almost four years and counting… Still in their “conducting trial and test” phase. What is their motto here. “Let everyone pass you by and then just ask them to make it for you?” 🤣

Here is a true solar car. it will be available this year or the next I believe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM6BHvgvrVc

This is the lightyear 0 and its solar panels give it a daily range of around 70KM; meaning if you drive less than that daily, You wouldn’t need to charge (using a wall socket) for months. Here is the link to the timeline in the video to explain this.

https://youtu.be/lM6BHvgvrVc?t=862

So a new startup company has achieved what a company with over half a century experience, could not do. And that is not all. The car has one of the most aerodynamic shapes ever created and has the best (least) drag coefficient on a production car. That enables it to have a battery only range of over 380 miles.

What mileage does the bz4x do on single charge when its wheels are not falling off? What good is a big company like Toyota then?

I have said this even in my comment above. Toyota gave the world EVs in the 90s and just squandered that. They squandered hydrogen fuel cell cars. Just releasing enough vehicles to not lose their patents and licensing. Not much else. Now they are behind on things that they themselves did. That is just lazy short sighted management.

By: Ali Khan

Ali Khan — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:58:16 +0000

In reply to Khurram. So their "conducting trial and test" is taking so long that they are now behind everyone else and are asking Chinese brands to make technically sound (EV) vehicles for them. Is that an example of good management or bad management?

By: TruongNguyen

TruongNguyen — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:47:09 +0000

Launching a whole new technology of batteries only to use it on Hybrids is like buying a brand new fishing pole only to use it on swimming pools. You're not gonna catch anyone's attention with it when everyone and their nannies are making EVs.

By: Khurram

Khurram — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 04:19:55 +0000

In reply to Ali Khan.

It is called conducting trial and test and then launching a whole new level of product perhaps an illiterate man like you would never appreciate the depth of management concepts because your thought process is shallow.

By: Khurram

Khurram — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 04:19:24 +0000

Panasonic is a notable brand and with it working with Toyota, maybe they would be offering something unique, after all Toyota is the only automaker in the world that is known for surprising car customers. They launched Solar Prius a long time ago, offered EVs in the 90s, and even entered luxury car market and revised its entire operations. It remains an interesting case for study for graduates and maybe that is why so many articles about Toyota Way are available in online libraries of Universities.

By: Ali Khan

Ali Khan — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:39:24 +0000

Toyota is a company of firsts. It was the first to make a commercially viable EV, the Rav4 EV back in the 90's. but Toyota squandered the opportunity. Instead of selling it leased the vehicle just like it is doing now in Japan with the bz4x. In the end the EV Rav4s were shelved. It did a JV with tesla in the 2010's but backed out laughing at the tech. Yeah! that was mature and an "informed decision". Toyota was the first to bring to market a commercially viable hydrogen fuel cell EV. But, even today, after decades, it still has to make the tech go anywhere. Instead, what it is focusing on, are anti-EV propagandas, very inefficient hydrogen combustion engines instead of very efficient hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; WHICH THEY EVEN HAVE IN THE MARKET! Now they will be the first to make solid state batteries. Wonder how they will squander this opportunity? This CEO of Toyota needs to go if this company is to have any chance of surviving.