"The SABERS concept proposes a battery that meets the key performance criteria through development of a solid-state architecture battery utilizing high-capacity sulfur-selenium cathode and lithium metal anode."
This isn't even a result. It's a proposal for funding. There is no "Solid State Battery from NASA". There is, at most, a prototype cathode.
There are real solid state batteries. Maxell has tiny ones for sale.[1] Many companies are making solid state battery noises, but few, if any, are shipping a product. Toyota's announcement of Real Soon Now has the Financial Times writing "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."[2]
Solid-state batteries are the next overhyped big thing. They may eventually work, but they don't work yet.
Typical solid state battery company hype site: [3] Note pictures of green and eco scenes and renders of battery modules. Note absence of product data sheets. If you dig enough, you find "Note that we have not completed the development of our multilayer commercial battery cell..."
OK, somebody issued a press release a few weeks ago announcing they sent the first sample to a customer for evaluation.
On a scale of 10, where 1 is "it looks like it might be theoretically possible" and 10 is "in stock at WalMart", this technology is maybe a 4 or 5.
Yes. I think Samsung is probably ahead in this as they intend to start trial production run by the end of this year. So they are well passed the prototype or sample to customer stage. With 1st Generation only getting a 50% increase in energy density, rather than all the hyped up 2x or 3x energy improvement.
It will probably take at least 2-3 years to iron out all the production issues before it is even being mass manufactured. So we are talking about at least 2027 or 2028 to have them in any Consumer device.
Realistically, knowing all the engineering and supply chain difficulties involved I think 2030+ is probably when we could see any SS Battery.
The big win with solid state batteries is faster charging time. When charge time comes down to 10 minutes, a charging station looks and works like a gas station. Right now, charging stations look like parking lots. They need more area and something to occupy the waiting customers. But a 10-minute charging station need be no larger than a gas station with a convenience store.
This totally changes the land and infrastructure requirements for electric vehicles.
We're going to see gas stations ripping out gas pumps and putting in charging lanes.
If you are a large company, you can get pre-production samples from multiple manufacturers under the NDA. It's now a race to build a large-scale production line. We'll definitely see some first mass-produced solid-state batteries next year.
They won't appear in Walmart for several more years, not in the least because all the manufacturing capacity is double-booked for the foreseeable future.
This isn't even a result. It's a proposal for funding. There is no "Solid State Battery from NASA". There is, at most, a prototype cathode.
There are real solid state batteries. Maxell has tiny ones for sale.[1] Many companies are making solid state battery noises, but few, if any, are shipping a product. Toyota's announcement of Real Soon Now has the Financial Times writing "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."[2]
Solid-state batteries are the next overhyped big thing. They may eventually work, but they don't work yet.
Typical solid state battery company hype site: [3] Note pictures of green and eco scenes and renders of battery modules. Note absence of product data sheets. If you dig enough, you find "Note that we have not completed the development of our multilayer commercial battery cell..."
[1] https://biz.maxell.com/en/rechargeable_batteries/allsolidsta...
[2] https://www.ft.com/content/ffc78e5d-eb8d-442c-bc5e-d2f029951...
[3] https://www.quantumscape.com/