There will probably be less, the risk of fire in a bad collision is always there. Most of the fires and recalls were Chevy Bolt and older Hyundai Ioniq (thankfully my wife's Ioniq was not part of the recall). The risk is always there, but it's so rare that it doesn't bother me (.03 percent)

 

Solid state batteries are much safer than conventional lithium batteries. The teslainvestorsclub brigade loves to hate on Toyota and seethes at the prospect of Toyota succeeding with this tech.

 

It's not just Toyota investing in SSD tech. All the major automakers have invested including Hyundai, Ford, GM and battery manufacturers like LG and Panasonic, as well as Samsung. Tesla is probably also secretly working on it, the problem is this tech is probably 5 to 10 years away from being a reality

 

Toyota will be successful. Toyota will be the leader in solid state. First to market as well. No battery fires

 

Toyota is very pragmatic, and always puts safety and reliability first. Fire risk is likely one of the reasons why they did not rush to use lithium batteries and continue using NiMH.

 

Everyone can make their wishlists, just like how some people here were expecting Lexus would leapfrog the Germans with their own twin turbo V8 which they teased for almost half a decade. We all saw how that promise panned out. Promises are meaningless without product.

 

Tesla investors and EV fans are different. I think most EV fans can't wait until there are solid state batteries and doesn't matter who invents them. I've had 4 Toyotas and 2 Lexus and recommend them to many friends but their latest attempts in EV are pretty laughable. We can only hope that they just don't care about this generation EV and is putting all of their eggs in solid state batteries.

Or they could just be putting out bad EVs hoping people get a sour taste so they can sell their Hydrogen tech

 

Toyota has both lithium and nickel. Probably first to market with lithium.

 

appreciate the optimism and enthusiasm but there's no guarantee any of what you're claiming will come true.

 

Thanks for pointing this out. Opinions are one thing, but to state it in a way that mimics a fact, not very cool.

 

operator of the Felicity Ace that sink is banning transporting EVs in the meantime

https://www.thedrive.com/news/45112/...ty-ace-sinking

 

I agree and as I said before, since we do not have the infrastructure for massive amounts of EV's, they are still focusing on practical vehicles like hybrids and more fuel efficient ICE's like a 40 mpg Camry.

These other manufacturers can play around with the limitations of litium-ion batteries all they want. It just buys Toyota more time to perfect the solid state battery which I have no doubt they will do. Pretty good track record over companies like Hyundai and GM if you ask me.

 

They only banned used EVs, they should ban all of them.

 

Paris bought 149 electric buses, and already three of them burned down in one month, Paris now temporarily suspended them.


https://auto.economictimes.*********...company%20said.

 

They don't even have to be plugged in charging: