Solid-state batteries for EVs are making a leap toward mass production

This piece originally appeared on Inside Climate News. It is republished with permission. Sign up for their newsletter here.At some point, the development of solid-state batteries—in which electrons flow through a solid material instead of a liquid or gel—is going to lead to electric vehicles that can go much farther on a charge and battery-storage systems that can hold more energy while taking up less space. We just don’t know when that is going to be.But in the last 10 days, two announcements offer reasons to think the answer is “sooner rather than later.”First, Solid Power, a Colorado-based company developing solid-state EV batteries for partners including Ford and BMW, said it has completed installation of a “pilot production line” that is capable of making about 300 battery cells per week. This signals that the technology is now moving from the lab to the…

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