I am not an expert in battery technology. This article popped up on my google news feed last night.
$130 Million is a fair amount of money for these two auto producers to invest in solid state batteries.
Toyota and Volkswagen have also made major investments in this battery technology.
I have absolutely no relation to this “news sight”.
“Gogoro’s swappable battery network”
A great solution to the recharge problem yet but probably not viable because of the weight and variety of battery packs.
Ok, you guys here know far more about this than I do, but I am still sooooo skeptical of electric cars as the “future” of autos.
NO major breakthrough/major “next gen” has ever come from the existing companies in the field. I have given examples such as overland non-RR travel (stagecoaches were nowhere close to making autos); air travel (balloon makers not involved in the Wrights work); calculating machines like NCR and IBM were not involved in the first microprocessor development; Sony with the dominant portable music device, the Walkman, was nowhere near the iPod; and so on. Keuffel, the slide rule company had nothing to do with electronic calculations.
Based on this, a truly “new” ground transport would likely seem to NOT be coming from any auto company.
That magic word again:"IF"
By 2030? Biden will end gasoline use way before that if the commies have their way.