“BS! I’ve seen so much con and fraud in these claims, I don’t believe a word of it.”
I guess you missed this was the third party independent testing to show hey we at least have a lab grade device.
The real question is are they going to sell the rights and who buys them can sit on them or not. This very much threatens BYD and CATL they could just buy it and sit on it till they are ready to do solid state cell themselves or they could buy it and bring them by the gigawatts hours worth to the market and dominate it. Given they already dominate the lithium and now sodium ion markets I expect them to buy it steal this tech and run with it. This is a trillion dollars plus market the world runs on energy storage devices.
I give it a year before one or both BYD and CATL announce they too have sodium solid cells that fast charge how they get there is only a matter of money and/or espionage
Either way these types of cells are coming Toyota has some in 2027 slated for production use they are testing them now.
Benz bought a competing group and is also doing testing right now as preproduction.
This is just the next step in battery evolution.
Nicads gave way to Ni metal hydride then Dr Goodenough and his team invented lithium ion which the whole world said was impossible and you will never cross 100wh/kg they won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for it. Those 100wh cells sparked the modern world with smartphones, and laptops that were impossible. Lots and lots of crow was eaten. Those lithium ion actual ion cells gave way to NMC then LFP joined the party. Now sodium ion are roaring into the scene CATL is the world leader. -40C and no loss of charge, 10000-50000 cycle lifetimes and sodium ions can’t thermal runaway. Guess what sodium solid state is not coming it’s here the only question is who brings it to the trillion dollars plus market first.
I didn’t miss a thing. I’ve heard BS claims from experts and supposed peer review this and that, I won’t believe it until I see it. And you can waste another dissertation somewhere else because I’ve lived a little bit and I’ve seen BS before.