Honda piloting building their own solid state cells

[neptronix]

Honda Unveils Demonstration Production Line for All-Solid-State Batteries Located in Sakura City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan | Honda Global Corporate Website

"TOKYO, Japan, November 21, 2024 – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today unveiled the demonstration production line for all-solid-state batteries, which is being developed independently by Honda toward mass production. The line was constructed on the property of Honda R&D Co., Ltd. (Sakura), located in Sakura City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. While conducting technical verification to establish a mass production process on this demonstration line, Honda will determine the basic specifications of the battery cells, with an aim to begin applying its all-solid-state batteries to electrified models that will be introduced to market in the second half of the 2020s."

 

[slaphappygamer]

These batteries would be great to see on e-bikes. Maybe Honda makes an ebike after they get vehicles going. That’d be cool.

 

[neptronix]

..or we do what we did in the 2010's and start buying cells that came out of cars or mysteriously appeared on the general market, as we did with A123's.

I'd do it, 1.5x-2x the range without a monstrous weight penalty would be killer.