VW has a rich legacy of lying their asses off to every single human that will listen. VW is not a credible source of information about VW.
VW solid-state battery retains 95% capacity over 1,000 charge cycles in lab testing
Submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/101459-volkswagen-backed-solid-state-battery-retains-95-capacity.html
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Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 10 months ago
tacosplease@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re probably using the guy who set the Tesla truck’s range
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Given that this is VW, I’ll wait until someone else verifies this.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
“No, no, we only cheated that one time, it’s in the past. Let it go. We’ve had our one lie, now we’re perfectly honest!”
Geobloke@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Definitely read that in a German accent
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I hear what you’re saying, but they invested tens of billions in this technology, and they were apparently the first to solve the dendrite issue that prevented SS batteries from being produced to scale. I’m confident they’ve figured it out. We’ll have to wait and see.
Toes@ani.social 10 months ago
Imagine being on a project too big to fail. Someone might have felt inclined to tinker with the data. Happens in the science community, could happen again here.
rmuk@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Plus VW produced SS equipment at scale in the past, but they don’t like to talk about it.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
So, they are heavily invested in this being a success, both financially and for the prestige of being first? To the point of likely costing someone a lot of money and maybe their job if they hadnt produced results?
The kind of situation where they would be tempted to tweak results a bit, perhaps?
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Given that we’re talking about batteries… Remember what phone and laptop manufacturers say about their batteries?
On top of that, these are solid state batteries, not your usual Li-ion batteries with a liquid electrolyte. This is the first time I’ve heard of a large well known company announce they’re using solid state batteries.
That technology has been under development for decades, and it has been applied in some very special devices before, but maybe now it’s finally the time to start large scale production.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Toyota has been telling us solid state batteries are coming soon since … 2012ish 😀
We’re still waiting
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Never gonna buy a volkswagen purely because of that BS, I guess it helps that most of their cars are expensive junk that is always breaking like lots of german cars…
kattenluik@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Quit being American for one second please, it’d be great.
moonburster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My man. I don’t know where you get you b grade VW from. Here everyone drives them for the longevity
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
yea dude its absolutely not true no need. its called a lie 🤥
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ok, VW tested it. Now can we have someone else test it so we can get honest results?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’m sure they self-investigated and found nothing wrong.
weew@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Maybe a real honest American company, like Boeing
NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 10 months ago
If you believe that, I have a Volkswagen clean diesel I’ll sell you
Zeon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Somehow the transmission will still find a way to blow up.
pozbo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I hope they try turning the wheels a bit while they do their testing, I’d hate to have another diesel emissions scandal involving explosive batteries and their efficacy.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The diesel emissions scandal is nothing to worry about as a consumer. The details matter - what they did was make the cars more fuel efficient by adhering to European emissions standards, which weren’t legal in America.
As a car buyer I’d have preferred to have the more efficient car with the EU legal emissions than the “fixed” ones that followed.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
VW violated EU and UK emission laws too. They were not legal.
PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
These are lies. The report stated that it held 100% capacity over 100.000.000 charges, but VW knows no-one would believe them, so they adjusted their numbers to look more realistic. /s
proudblond@lemmy.world 10 months ago
/s not necessary. They’ve messed with numbers before and just got a slap on the wrist. Why wouldn’t they lie again?
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Really need to hand it off to other makers. VW is just scandal. It lies on its emissions reports. Has a history of abusing workers. All round a shell of it’s former self
chaogomu@kbin.social 10 months ago
Sadly, VW has never strayed far from their roots.
They've always been just a little scummy on the business practices side of things. More than a little scummy during WW2...
They do sometimes have good engineering. Which means fuck all in the face of management who want to cut corners and cheat to make more money.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do any companies have morality
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
the 1.4 introduced somewherein the 2000s was their last “good” engine. newer models just suffer from downsizing, constant engine problems after around 80K km.
buy a used honda or a toyota. might even be fuel efficient if you buy a prius for cheap and replace the battery.
or, you know… buy a small car. the 1st gen aygo easily does 40-50mpg and cost 10K BRAND NEW. but then toyota made it a crossover which uses more fuel and is almost 20K.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Volkswagen was literally founded by the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler himself was heavily involved in designing their first car lol.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Half the companies operating in Germany today were started during Hitler’s reign, borne out of his policies.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Still no news on Quantum scapes factory actually going into large scale production… so still… lab results…
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, I’m always remiss to get excited about battery tech that isn’t entering mass production. Until then, it’s just something that might be cool in 20 years, but probably not.
sebinspace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s still a car.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes and we all know that, and it is good. I would like to buy one for myself too. EVs are an overall good thing for everyone.
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 10 months ago
BUT INNOVATION!
smallaubergine@kbin.social 10 months ago
great now mass manufacture it
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
They will. They just finished building the battery manufacturing facility near St. Thomas, ON.
badbytes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No that’s some solid reporting
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
And u have a bridge to sell you! Here, right here in my pocket, but before I show you you gotta pay up!
Seriously, these new battery tech articles are just insane, Google is trying to push at least 5 different ones at me every day in this Google News drawer crap on my phone which, obviously, cannot be uninstalled or even disabled.
It’s all scam.
DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 10 months ago
These the guys that notoriously violated emissions standards and created software to hide the fact from testers? Some pretty spectacular claims you go there. Would be a shame if someone… doubted your reputation.
SeaJ@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And let’s not forget that they had to create Electrify America and then treat it like a red headed step child. They are really invested in EVs. /s
Antergo@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Every car maker did, VW took the blame but the whole industry was lying
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sauce?
Garbanzo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Did those guys not get fired?
Gamoc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do you really think the people in charge and responsible for that decision are the ones who got fired? Do you really think that’s how accountability works in giant mega corporations?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not only that, a lot of the board ended up in prison, which didn’t happen for the other automakers that also had illegally high emissions (all of them).