VW Solid-State Battery Prototype Shows Real Promise

07 Jan 2024 | Abstracted from Autoblog

"A solid-state prototype from VW’s US partner QuantumScape 'significantly exceeded' industry targets in recent tests...the cell saw only 5% storage capacity loss after more than 1,000 charging cycles, the equivalent of 500,000 kilometers on the road...industry targets for this development phase are 700 charging cycles and a maximum loss of 20% capacity

"This innovation, if proven to work beyond the lab and reproduced flawlessly hundreds

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