Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech

600 miles? Call me when they make one small enough to fit in a car

heyooooo

If it were any other company I would be thrilled. With Samsung, this is going to be internet enabled, you'll need an app to turn your car on and off, and it'll probably play ads at high volumes constantly while driving.

For a smaller EV It would take around 200kWh worth of battery for a 600 mile range. The current Tesla "superchargers" put out 250kWh. So whatever is going to charge this battery will have to output roughly an order of magnitude more power in order to charge the battery in 6 minutes. That's an impressive and scary amount of energy transfer.

Edit: I don't know where I got 6 minutes from. So not quite 10X the power for charging, but a LOT more than current chargers.

So what's the catch? Is it the price?

20 years is very nice, how recyclable are they after that though?

I'd love to imagine around 20 years later people would be retrofitting old and heavy phone, laptop, and EV batteries with lighter and faster-charging ones...

Needs to be an option to put these into todays EVs. You shouldn't have to buy a brand new car to get better battery technology.

Wait, are EV batteries even replaceable?

Great, now car manufacturers need to figure out how they can make it stop holding charge at 10years.

Aaaaaaand (deep breath)

Bullshit

At first I thought, damn a 600 mile battery. That's a big battery.