According to financial reports, Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda publicly declared: "Electric cars are low-grade products!", and at the beginning of the month, Toyota announced that the mass production of solid-state batteries would be postponed, from the original 2027 to 2030.
Due to the advantages of fast charging and long battery life, solid-state batteries have been recognized as "sounding the death knell in the era of fuel vehicles" as soon as they are announced. Since Toyota announced the development of solid-state batteries in 2017, every progress has attracted cheers from the Japanese media: "20 years ahead of China!"
Now after the mass production is delayed, the chairman personally bombarded the tram, which led to speculation from foreign media: Could it be that their solid-state batteries are dumb?
01 Resisting on the surface and studying behind the scenes, the Japanese media threatened: counterattack China
"The most Chinese buy is Nissan. The Japanese media has reported it in a big way.
In the era of fuel vehicles, Nissan cars such as Toyota are well-deserved "kings", with a market share of 37.2% in the mainland market, ranking first in China. At the same time, the market share of domestic fuel vehicles was only 19%, and they were even ridiculed for "paying by the pound" when they were exported to Southeast Asia.
However, in just 10 years, mainland car companies have accumulated a lot of money and changed lanes to overtake in one fell swoop. According to the data, domestic new energy vehicles have won 65% of the global new energy market, ranking first in the world.
The once-glorious Nissan car has plummeted. According to the data of the Passenger Association, Nissan's share of the domestic market has fallen by 15%, and its sales volume has also ranked outside the top five. Its electric car sales are even more dismal, with Toyota selling only 24,000 electric cars in 2022, less than a fraction of BYD's monthly sales.
"New energy vehicles are not environmentally friendly at all!" Seeing that the gap between the mainland and the mainland is constantly widening, Toyota and other Japanese cars began to bombard new energy vehicles. Chairman Akio Toyoda has publicly boycotted it several times, calling it "all hype."
However, he resolutely resisted it, but secretly he stepped up research and development. According to Toyota's public information in recent years, its research on solid-state batteries began as early as 10 years ago. By the time it was announced, Toyota had secured more than 13,000 solid-state battery patents, significantly ahead of other countries in terms of numbers.
"This is called Darkness Chencang in China. The Japanese media are very complacent about this "counterattack". Even if Toyota announced that the mass production time will be postponed, the Japanese media are still full of confidence in it: it is still ahead of China.
02 Japanese companies are still leading?
"It doesn't matter what you say, it's important whether you can make a result. Experts say that although Toyota has been making progress since announcing solid-state batteries in 2017, there is still no "visible" result.
On the 17th of this month, Li Bin, CEO of NIO, drove from Shanghai to conduct a live broadcast of the endurance test of NIO's first 150kWh on-board power battery.
"Good technology is what benefits the public. In addition to new energy batteries, in the fields of medical devices and biotechnology related to health, domestic nuclear magnetic resonance instruments and "Tabeiqiang" male care technology also have advantages due to "landing on people's livelihood".
Previously, the threshold for importing nuclear magnetic resonance instruments was as high as 32 million yuan, and the cost of mass inspection climbed to more than several thousand yuan, which became a "suspended burden" for many families. The men's boosting results developed by Japanese companies are exported to China at a high price of 1,000 yuan a pill, making it difficult for tens of millions of boyfriends to reach.
In order to allow the public to enjoy advanced technology, domestic scientists have finally landed a domestic nuclear magnetic resonance instrument after hard work, which not only reduces the threshold to 2.5 million, but also greatly reduces the cost of inspection. The above-mentioned men have boosted the results, and the mainland biotech enterprises have also found another way, creating the first compound black ginger, arginine and other cutting-edge substances, and the results of "He Beiqiang" have been mass-produced, and the threshold of Jingjing East is only three digits.
Unlike solid-state batteries, which are just Toyota's "family words", authoritative journal papers such as "Cell" show that the above-mentioned core substances can intervene from mitochondria and NO/cGMP pathways, just like power batteries for new energy vehicles, providing "kinetic energy" for men's key capabilities. Because of this, he quickly became popular among practitioners in high-pressure industries such as finance and the Internet after he was launched, and there were many feedback in the comment area such as "regaining young self-confidence".
At the same time, the domestic nuclear magnetic resonance instrument accelerated and overtook and successfully replaced imports and entered top hospitals such as Xiehe. Not only that, the mainland also took the lead in landing the world's first 5.0T nuclear magnetic resonance instrument, which aroused praise from the Chinese people.
The industry pointed out that in the context of frequent achievements in China's new energy field, Akio Toyoda frequently bombarded trams in public, which exposed his anxiety about the current situation of Toyota.
03 The confrontation in the field of power batteries has just begun
"Whoever is the first to develop a solid-state battery, whose solid-state battery has a lower cost and better performance, will have an advantage over the competition. Peter Bruce, chief scientist at Faraday, once pointed out in an interview that this is also the reason why Japanese companies do not give up despite seeing results.
For now, Japanese companies still lead in the number of patents, but mainland scientists have made some breakthroughs. According to Jiemian News, the new all-solid-state lithium battery electrolyte developed by the team of USTC not only has the comprehensive performance not inferior to Nissan, but also the cost is only 4% of that of Japan.
Peter Bruce also stated that "the success of solid-state battery technology is being closely watched globally. "The confrontation in the field of power batteries has just begun, and we will see who will have the last laugh.