The battery life can exceed 1,200 kilometers. Has Toyota mastered new battery technology?

After Toyota previously announced in June its direction towards next-generation pure electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and revealed that it will help achieve the group's annual production target of 3.5 million electric vehicles by 2030, it recently announced the brand's future new generation of electric vehicles. Regarding car and battery details, Toyota Group has predicted that the next-generation battery to be launched in 2026 will have a WLTP range of 800 kilometers, and fast charging from 10% to 80% will only take 20 minutes at the fastest. As for the solid-state battery that is expected to be released around 2027 to 2028, the battery life of the flagship model is expected to increase by another 20% to 1,000 kilometers. It only takes 10 minutes to charge from 10% to 80%. The ultimate battery life target of the solid-state battery car is Look at 1,200 kilometers!

Toyota's original factory was previously selected in Tokyo, Japan in June 2023. Hiroki Nakajima, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Toyota Group, personally hosted the "Toyota Technical Workshop" forward-looking technology briefing event, and at the same time, by moving towards the next generation The direction of pure electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles simultaneously announced the goal of "Let's Change the Future of Cars", revealing that it will lead the way in shaping the future of cars as a car manufacturer.

At that time, Takero Kato, president of Toyota BEV Factory, also mentioned in the briefing that Toyota's entire next-generation electric vehicle product line will be launched in 2026, and that in 2030, it will help achieve the goal of annual production of 3.5 million electric vehicles. By then, Toyota's next-generation electric vehicles, including Lexus, will be equipped with new-generation batteries and have a cruising range of up to 1,000 kilometers. They will also use SiC silicon carbide chip inverters to shorten DC fast charging time to less than 20 minutes to create Better electric vehicle performance.

Now, in addition to the previously revealed development technology highlights, Toyota Group has recently announced the process details of the brand's future new generation of electric vehicles and batteries, announcing that they will be launched in phases in the future. Among them, Performance battery and Popularization battery will belong to the "Next Generation battery pack" that will be launched in 2026, while the subsequent "Future Evolution advanced battery" generation will include High Performance batteries, and will be divided into two parts in the future. Stage-advanced Solid-State batteries.

The Popularisation battery pack, which is expected to be launched around 2026 to 2027, uses LFP lithium iron phosphate battery and Bipolar bipolar plate design. The goal set by Toyota's engineering team is to become a popular next-generation battery pack compared to the current bZ4X The cruising range can still be increased by 20%, the DC fast charging time can reach less than 30 minutes (SOC=10-80%), the battery cost can be significantly reduced by 40%, and the WLTP cruising range can reach 600 kilometers.

As for the Performance battery pack, which will also be launched in 2026, it will use the same NCM nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary lithium-ion battery and Monopolar unipolar plate design as bZ4X, but its battery cost will be 20% lower than bZ4X, and it will benefit from Due to the increase in battery energy density and the vehicle's target aerodynamic coefficient design of 0.20 Cd, the WLTP cruising range will reach 800 kilometers and the charging time will be shortened to less than 20 minutes (SOC=10-80%).

"Future Evolution Advanced Battery" is a next-generation high-performance battery with 10% longer battery life than the next generation.

The High Performance battery pack belongs to the "Future Evolution advanced battery" generation. It is a Bipolar bipolar plate design, but uses a nickel-metal hydride lithium battery pack. Compared with the aforementioned "Next Generation" battery pack ”, the cruising range will be increased by another 10%, and the cost can be reduced by another 10%. The WLTP cruising range will reach the level of 1,000 kilometers, and the DC fast charging time can still be controlled within 20 minutes (SOC=10-80%).

Solid-state batteries will be commercialized in 2027-2028 and are expected to be achieved in two phases, with the highest target of 1,200 kilometers of battery life.

Another major focus of the "Future Evolution Advanced Battery" generation is the all-solid-state battery technology that is expected to be commercialized from 2027 to 2028. The first phase of solid-state batteries, which Toyota expects to be implemented around 2027 to 2028, will be able to achieve WLTP range of up to 1,000 kilometers, and the DC fast charging time of 10-80% can be shortened to 10 minutes. The goal of the subsequent solid-state battery phase 2 is to increase the full-charge range of its electric vehicles to 1,200 kilometers.

The target for commercialization of all-solid-state batteries is a cruising range of 1,200 kilometers.

In addition, Toyota also expects to further reduce the height of the battery pack itself. For example, the height of the current bZ4X battery pack reaches 150mm. The next-generation battery pack in the future is expected to reduce the height to 120mm, even for high-performance sports electric vehicles. The height of the model and battery pack will be further reduced to 100mm. U-CAR will closely track and report on the subsequent trends in Toyota's battery technology.