Toyota WON’T share its ‘600 Mile’ EV battery technology

Toyota may be partnering with Mazda and Denso on a new architecture for electric cars, but it won’t be sharing its new Solid State battery technology for EVs.

Toyota is busy working with Mazda and Denso on a new architecture for its electric cars, but despite that co-operation it has no intention of sharing its ‘game changing’ battery technology.

As we reported as far back as 2011, Toyota are working on a new solid state battery technology which promises to be game changing – if not quite disruptive – with the original claims for the batteries suggesting they would deliver a 600 mile range and cost 90 per cent less than current batteries.

So when Toyota announced last year they were going to jump in to EVs – after more or less eschewing them in favour of hybrid and hydrogen – it seemed likely they had gone far enough to deliver on their new battery promise.

Toyota has around 200 engineers working on the new solid state batteries ahead of a launch sometime in the early 2020s, and much of the promise made at the start of the project looks to be real.

Toyota say the batteries are ‘game changing’ and make them the world leader in solid state battery technology, that the new batteries have 50 per cent greater density than current batteries, don’t require cooling and charge in half the time.

No wonder Toyota aren’t going to share.