<story><title>Toyota plans to be the first company to sell an EV with a solid-state battery</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/content/4c8b11d1c65d83d23ba9aeb11030a947</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Twirrim</author><text>&amp;gt; The electric vehicles being developed by Toyota will have a range more than twice the distance of a vehicle running on a conventional lithium-ion battery under the same conditions&lt;p&gt;500km = 310 miles.  That&amp;#x27;s not even remotely twice the range of a Tesla.  Heck, it&amp;#x27;s not even that much more than my Chevrolet Bolt gets.&lt;p&gt;Everything else about this sounds great, especially the charge times.  That takes a lot out of the hassles of a long distance trip in an electric car. ~250 miles is a fine point for getting out, taking a restroom break, stretching legs etc.  Get back and the car is all topped up?  Sounds perfect.&lt;p&gt;The main problem here is that it&amp;#x27;s still dependent on Lithium, and we&amp;#x27;ve really got to get off that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xbmcuser</author><text>Why do we need to get off Lithium its an abundant mineral. If its about dirty mining there is not guarantee other minerals will be mined cleanly either.</text></comment>
<story><title>Toyota plans to be the first company to sell an EV with a solid-state battery</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/content/4c8b11d1c65d83d23ba9aeb11030a947</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Twirrim</author><text>&amp;gt; The electric vehicles being developed by Toyota will have a range more than twice the distance of a vehicle running on a conventional lithium-ion battery under the same conditions&lt;p&gt;500km = 310 miles.  That&amp;#x27;s not even remotely twice the range of a Tesla.  Heck, it&amp;#x27;s not even that much more than my Chevrolet Bolt gets.&lt;p&gt;Everything else about this sounds great, especially the charge times.  That takes a lot out of the hassles of a long distance trip in an electric car. ~250 miles is a fine point for getting out, taking a restroom break, stretching legs etc.  Get back and the car is all topped up?  Sounds perfect.&lt;p&gt;The main problem here is that it&amp;#x27;s still dependent on Lithium, and we&amp;#x27;ve really got to get off that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmroanirgo</author><text>Just to clarify that the solid-state battery still uses Lithium (but not Lithium-Ion): the article states:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The electric vehicles being developed by Toyota will have a range more than twice the distance of a vehicle running on a conventional lithium-ion battery under the same conditions&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Because solid-state batteries use lithium, an element with limited global reserves, the government will assist in procuring the material.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It seems that Lithium will be the next oil crisis, especially if governments will be directly involved in the procurement...and I agree with parent, we must do better than Lithium. Perhaps good &amp;#x27;ol Hydrogen? (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=sP-ZPM0nKkk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=sP-ZPM0nKkk&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>