Revolutionary batteries in the new generation of Toyota electric vehicles

The Japanese manufacturer has just revealed new details about the advanced battery technology that will be integrated into its next-generation electric vehicles. Looking ahead, the company plans to use various types of batteries, including solid state ones as wellToyota expects these new batteries to power 1.7 million of the 3.5 million electric vehicles it expects to sell worldwide by 2030.

The company is currently working on three types of batteries, in addition to solid-state batteries, which it has referred to as Performance , Popularization y High performance.

The first, with lithium-ion chemistry, will arrive in the Japanese manufacturer's electric vehicles from 2026 and will allow a significant increase in autonomy, even reaching over 800 km.Toyota explains that to achieve this, its engineers will work on reducing the aerodynamic coefficient of the new vehicles as well as their weight.

The batteries Performance , on the other hand, will cost 20 percent less than those currently used by the brand's only electric model, the bZ4X. And at the same time they will allow to reduce the charging times, making it possible to increase the battery charge. from 10 to 80 percent in just 20 minutes.

LFP batteries will also be used in Toyota vehicles

The chemistry of batteries that fall within the category Popularization will be lithium ferrophosphate (LFP). Its great advantage will be its even lower cost, without its performance in other areas being clearly inferior. For the development of this type of battery, Toyota will rely on the bipolar technology that it has been using in recent years in its nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries, which are expected to reach the market around 2026 or 2027.

Additionally, the batteries High performance Toyota will use a new lithium-ion chemistry with a nickel cathode that will increase the autonomy of some of its new electric models even reaching over a thousand kilometersThe company also talks about a 10 percent reduction in costs in this case and the ability to increase the state of charge from 10 to 80 percent in just 20 minutes. This type of battery is expected to reach the market in 2027 or 2028.

Solid-state batteries will no longer be an eternal promise

Finally, Toyota's solid-state batteries will revolutionize the sector, according to the company itself, by dramatically increasing their charge and discharge capacity. The only disadvantage of this type of battery is its shorter lifespan, but the Japanese manufacturer assures that it already has the solution to this problem. We should see this type of battery in the first Toyota electric vehicles around 2027, or perhaps in 2028.

The Japanese manufacturer expects that with its solid-state batteries the autonomy of its vehicles will increase by 20 percent compared to those equipped with batteries Performance , being able to travel even more than a thousand kilometers per chargeOn the other hand, increasing the charge of these batteries from 10 to 80 percent will require only 10 minutes.