The company that just opened America’s newest battery plant says solid-state cars are a decade away
LG Energy Solution says the unsolved problem in solid-state batteries is making large cells at scale, and expects the technology to reach smartphones roughly a decade before electric vehicles. Europe’s first solid-state gigafactory broke ground in France in February.
The company that has just opened America’s newest battery plant does not think solid-state cells are close for cars. “The problem with solid state is large-scale production,” said Robert Lee, North America president of LG Energy Solution, at a media roundtable at its new Lansing factory.
The difficulty scales with the cell. Small formats reach good energy density, Lee said, but “if you’re making very large form factors, most companies are struggling.”
His ordering of the market is the blunt part. Solid-state will appear in smartphones “probably a decade before you would see it in EVs,” with specialised applications arriving before either cars or grid...
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