The New Japanese EV Car Could End the Entire EV Industry!

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Toyota has a car coming in the next two years and will not say which one it is. When the executive running the programme was asked directly, he answered that it needs to be a model that can leverage those qualities, and then said he would leave it up to your imagination. The qualities are a battery designed to hold ninety percent of its capacity for up to forty years, more than a thousand kilometres on a charge, and a cell that is smaller, lighter and safer than anything on the road. A normal lithium battery is designed to hold ninety percent for about ten years. That single difference does not improve an electric car. It rewrites the economics of owning one.

In this video, we trace what Toyota has actually built while the industry spent a decade calling it the company that fell asleep on electric cars. We explain what a solid state battery is in plain language, and why almost every complaint about electric cars traces back to one flammable liquid. We go through the business maths that turns the most expensive part of the car into the most permanent part. Then the supply chain, with dates and places, from the Idemitsu electrolyte plant now under construction in Chiba to the Sumitomo cathode agreement. Then the new six hundred horsepower petrol engine Toyota built at the same time, and why that is not a contradiction. And finally Akio Toyoda, the most mocked executive in the car business, and the prediction that got him called a dinosaur.

🔍 TOPICS COVERED

Toyota, Solid State Battery, Keiji Kaita, Idemitsu Kosan, Ichihara, Chiba, NEDO, Green Innovation Fund, Sumitomo Metal Mining, Prime Planet Energy and Solutions, Panasonic, Akio Toyoda, Multipathway, G20E, GR Yaris, Mazda, Subaru, RAV4, Prius, Sulfide Electrolyte, Lithium Sulfide, Tariffs

📜 SOURCES

Toyota and Idemitsu Kosan, beginning of cooperation toward mass production of all solid state batteries for BEVs, 12 October 2023
Idemitsu Kosan starts construction of its solid electrolyte pilot plant in Ichihara, Chiba, reported February 2026
Toyota expands its solid state battery partnership with Sumitomo Metal Mining, 9 October 2025
Top Gear interview with Keiji Kaita, President of Toyota's Carbon Neutral Advanced Engineering Development Centre
Toyota and Panasonic establish Prime Planet Energy and Solutions, announced 3 February 2020
Fortune, Akio Toyoda forecasts battery electric vehicles at thirty percent of the market, January 2024
Autoblog and Auto Motor und Sport on the Toyota G20E engine
Toyota FY2026 results, record revenue and the North America operating loss from United States tariffs

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