Comment on Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption

• schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Test it in existing vehicles, can even do it discretely without the public knowing.

  Why would it be magic to make a replacement battery, and how would they be playing fast and loose?

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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they had the ability to test it in a vehicle, they would be shouting about it from the hills rather than this “maybe it might be possible” report that keeps getting shared

    It would be magic to get it into a vehicle in 2028. Every other car manufacturer has finalized their designs past that by now, and aren’t going to risk such a massive change this late in the design process

    This is part of why the infotainment systems in cars tend to suck. They’re finalized about 6 years before the car goes to market

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    • schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Once they have a functional prototype they can do all that, they still have 5 years. As a replacement battery you could retrofit it to any vehicle, so the model year is totally irrelevant.

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      • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t know how else to explain to you that you have to have a street legal vehicle to sell from the factory.

        You’re welcome to mod your car, and you probably won’t have issues, but that’s not how it works for new vehicles

        The 2022-2027 model year of one of the biggest manufacturers is using a chipset from a phone from 2016 in their infotainment. Yeah, you’ll get some minor updates, but they’ve recently cancelled any more major updates since the chip is dead. And it’ll still go into cars until they next unit they designed last year enters production in 2028

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