Assuming they are commercially viable otherwise they will become a patent on a shelf gathering dust like so many other breakthroughs in the last 20 years.
That’s the beauty of Chinese state driven economy. The state can pour money into new technologies at a scale that no private business would ever do, which makes it possible to get to the point where new tech becomes commercially viable.
There are already companies mass producing solid state batteries with ~380KWh densities for a Litre, substantially better than Li-ion and safer as well since they don’t ignite. They just aren’t at the sort of scale yet where a lot of the market will be using them.
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Assuming they are commercially viable otherwise they will become a patent on a shelf gathering dust like so many other breakthroughs in the last 20 years.
That’s the beauty of Chinese state driven economy. The state can pour money into new technologies at a scale that no private business would ever do, which makes it possible to get to the point where new tech becomes commercially viable.
There are already companies mass producing solid state batteries with ~380KWh densities for a Litre, substantially better than Li-ion and safer as well since they don’t ignite. They just aren’t at the sort of scale yet where a lot of the market will be using them.