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Toyota nears mass production of solid-state batteries (archive.ph)
submitted 1 year ago by bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are though. Have you any idea of the capex involved in a 65,000 m2 facility?

In March 2022, Samsung SDI announced that it would set up a trial production line for manufacturing solid-state batteries in Yeongton-gu, a district in the South Korean city of Suwon. The production line, which is named the “S-line”, would take up an area of 65,000 square meters.

https://m.energytrend.com/news/20230710-32628.html

[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Notice how that article is from July, and they didn't report progress on such a line? Odd, no? Surely in four months the tense would have gone from "will" to "is", right? And yet...