Idemitsu & Toyota Team Up to Create Global Standard for All-Solid-State Batteries
All-solid-state batteries have been touted as the future of batteries and a game-changer for BEVs. Two companies have joined forces to make the Japanese industry more globally competitive.
All-solid-state batteries have been touted as the future of batteries and a game-changer for BEVs. Two companies have joined forces to make the Japanese industry more globally competitive.
On October 12, Idemitsu Kosan and Toyota announced that they will work together toward the mass production of all-solid-state batteries.
The two companies will seek to develop mass production technologies for solid electrolytes—the pathway for ions moving between the cathode (+) and anode (-)—to improve productivity and establish a supply chain.
The two companies lead the world in patents related to all-solid-state batteries and the sulfide solid electrolytes used to make them. Through closer collaboration, they will aim to establish the global standard.
“For the beginning of the manufacturing phase, the important thing is the power of realization,” Toyota President Koji Sato emphasized at the press conference. “Working together will multiply our power of realization many times over.”
