Toyota unveils EV roadmap that includes new battery and assembly tech
An EV powered by a solid-state battery would have a range of 1,200 km and charging time of just 10 minutes, Toyota said. By comparison, the Tesla Supercharger network — the largest of its kind — offers the equivalent of 321 km of charge in 15 minutes.Engineers at the automaker have been considering a reboot of its EV strategy since last year to better compete.
It also said it would use Giga casting to cut production costs, adopting an innovation pioneered by Tesla using massive, aluminum casting machines to reduce vehicle complexity. Toyota's BEV Factory, established in May, aims to produce about 1.7 million vehicles by 2030, Kato said — about half of the 3.5 million EVs Toyota aims to sell annually by that year.brand, accounting for more than 1% of its global sales in a single month for the first time.
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