Financial Times (October 25)
2023/ 10/ 26 by jd in Global News
“Japan’s biggest automotive trade show acts as a gauge of how hard the country’s once unstoppable carmakers are ready to fight for survival. Increasingly it looks like an industry waiting for a miracle. The trillion-dollar question is whether solid-state batteries — a technology that promises greater range and safety than lithium-ion ones, and which Toyota has indicated it is near to mass producing — can be that miracle.”
Tags: Automotive, Carmakers, Industry, Japan, Lithium-ion, Miracle, Range, Safety, Solid-state batteries, Survival, Toyota, Trade show, Unstoppable