Battery Is An Issue for Toyota, But Not For Tesla

Correction; Massive, sustained multi-pronged and frankly regressive government support (i.e. taxpayers) made Tesla

If that were true The top tech companies would be Raytheon for the CK722 transistor and Fairchild for the multiple device chip. We would all be driving vehicles evolved from electric forklifts and golf carts.
Edison built an electric car in 1904 and believed that the future of automobiles would be electric.
The advantage belongs to those who develope concepts into things that meet the needs of many and efficiently can be produced to.meet those needs.

Toyota and Panasonic has been partners since the 50's and have had EV battery joint ventures since 1996, and and a new one Prime Planet

Not true. Hydrogen cars have many downsides, and the theoretical limits of the technology are known. True electric vehicles will improve massively with new battery tech as it comes online.

you make money for quite awhile. if you invested in QuantumsScale , stock symbol QS, you would have made 7 times your money in last 2 months in the battery company. VW n Microsoft are large investors. Do your homework n make money now mot 10 years from now!

The efficiency from power generation to torque at the wheels is 3 times greater for BEV's than for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. That fact alone will doom hydrogen. Add the extra cost, complexity, infrastructure and maintenance needed for hydrogen and it simply can't compete.

Hydrogen electric vehicle owners will end up slaves to "big hydrogen" just like we are all slaves to "Big Oil" now.(unless you already drive an ev)

Fuel cell vehicles will mostly be plug-in fuel cell hybrids and will be a big part of our future, especially in the transportation industry. The size of their batteries will depend on the tasks to be performed, giving drivers a choice between hydrogen and electricity. A combination of both energy sources will be used wisely. However, most smaller vehicles will be BEV's. Both vehicle types will contain solid-state batteries.

Hydrogene is 3 X less efficient than Lithium battery BEV déhiciles
the only economical way to obtain H is converting natural gaz CH4 and it is a polluting fossile energy business
and worse if methane come from fracturation process .
Then a fleet of diesel polluting citern crrying H have to deliver to fill up services stations,,,

The only advantage is a HVÉ is not polluting while rolling .
The next thing comming are solid statehigh density long life Li batteries
and super capacitor can accelerate the improvement,

all the rest is just politicallobby from fossile fuel industries

It sounds like you may be surprised to learn that lithium-ion batteries store a lot more energy (i.e. they have higher energy density) than other batteries such as the lead acid batteries you use in your car to crank the engine. It further sounds like you may be surprised to learn that lithium-ion batteries can be cycled (charged/discharged) both deeper and many more times than a lead-acid battery (meaning, you shouldn't let your car battery drop below 50% charge or it will shorten the battery life). You might have noticed that you generally have to replace your car's battery every couple of years. Tesla's are still fairly young, but some of them are 6, 7, 8 years old without having had to change the battery (yet), simply because lithium-ion batteries last longer than the batteries you are accustomed to using. So, yes, lithium-ion batteries are expensive, but these are the reasons people are willing to pay for them. They are simply more useful (in certain applications) than other/cheaper types of batteries. (they are, however, becoming less expensive as new processes are invented)

Finally, lithium-ion (and all of the other chemicals and metals that go into these batteries) are very valuable. Tesla, for example, has set up recycling plants in Las Vegas and China to recycle these batteries... they aren't being dumped into the ground the way you have assumed.

It's time to catch up... there are many new and exciting things to learn about lithium-ion batteries and how they are different from the batteries you've grown up with. Even more exciting are the new solid state batteries that have recently been announced. Battery technology is on it's way up. Not down.

3 months? Try more like 12-15 *days*. What tesla builds with multiple "gigafactories" is an almost insignificant number to Toyota. Plus Toyota is placing bigger bets on solving green hydrogen and making fuel cell hybrids, smth the author ignores. One-sided puff piece tbh..

But can they produce said battery for said electric cars at scale? Where's their manufacturing prowess, if they are as capable as you suggest?

Our electric supply can't keep up with the demand now. How are you going to charge millions of electric cars?
Think of how many years it takes to build a power producing plant.

I have worked in plenty of car factories and Toyota is where I would spend my own money. Tesla have a lot to learn about quality
BEV's are a short term solution for small cars but will not be the future unless someone totally re-invents the batteries. Litium cells will be gone in 20-30 years at most. Hydrogen is the obvious fuel because of its energy density but it has many issues in practice. Some recent developments may change this though by allowing storage at much lower pressure. 5kg of hydrogen does the same work as 1000kg of lithium cells

Why would a company that is selling over 1.5 million hybrids and PHEV's worldwide every year and around 8 million conventional vehicles a year want to rush into the far less profitable EV market and deprive its profitable hybrids and PHEV's of batteries? The smartest thing Toyota could do while developing its solid-state battery would be to expand the Prime line to midsize sedans, trucks, and SUV's. That would also include Lexus vehicles.

As was proven by Hyundai/Kia. They came late to the auto manufacturing party, made junk, Kia almost folded, Hyundai rescued it, they started making better vehicles at bargain prices, and look at them now. Unlike them, Toyota is in the best position right now with all their cash and other ventures. They'll make plenty in the EV market when they're ready to spring into action. In the meantime, they'll keep making money and expanding into other ventures like hydrogen stations, fuel cell semis, and the like.