Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech

600 miles? Call me when they make one small enough to fit in a car

heyooooo

If it were any other company I would be thrilled. With Samsung, this is going to be internet enabled, you'll need an app to turn your car on and off, and it'll probably play ads at high volumes constantly while driving.

So what's the catch? Is it the price?

For a smaller EV It would take around 200kWh worth of battery for a 600 mile range. The current Tesla "superchargers" put out 250kWh. So whatever is going to charge this battery will have to output roughly an order of magnitude more power in order to charge the battery in 6 minutes. That's an impressive and scary amount of energy transfer.

Edit: I don't know where I got 6 minutes from. So not quite 10X the power for charging, but a LOT more than current chargers.

I'd love to imagine around 20 years later people would be retrofitting old and heavy phone, laptop, and EV batteries with lighter and faster-charging ones...

20 years is very nice, how recyclable are they after that though?

Needs to be an option to put these into todays EVs. You shouldn't have to buy a brand new car to get better battery technology.

What material is inside?

These articles call it "oxide" but what exactly is it?

At first I thought, damn a 600 mile battery. That's a big battery.

Wait, are EV batteries even replaceable?

Great, now car manufacturers need to figure out how they can make it stop holding charge at 10years.

Aaaaaaand (deep breath)

Bullshit

Finally. A true alternative to gasoline vehicles has begun to arrive. I'd never buy a current gen or older pure EV because I'd never want to spend $10,000+ on a battery replacement after its 10 years old or have something with a 250 mile range that takes 45 minutes to charge most of the way up. Give the world a 350 mile (real world usage) battery that can charge in under 15 minutes and lasts 20 years, that's total replacement territory.

Hope they arent lipo. Have had two of those balloon up on me so far and wouldnt want one to set my car on fire from thermal runaway