Toyota still targets 2027–28 for its first all-solid-state EV, but every other car with "solid-state" cells is a test mule — and some aren't fully solid at all.
Used EV prices are 8% higher than a year ago, but more than half of listings now sit under $30,000 — and a wave of three-year-old lease returns is just getting started.
Just 14 SUVs are affected, and all are already in Rivian's shops, but it's the new R2's second recall in 13 days — this one a hardware fix, not a software update.
The 30,000-square-foot Saline center will evaluate packs from Toyota's $13.9 billion North Carolina plant, and it opened more than a year after Toyota's original 2025 target.
The GM–LG Energy Solution joint venture will retool its Tennessee plant for lithium manganese-rich cells, a chemistry aimed at long-range trucks without high-nickel costs. Work wraps up in 2028.
A joint testing agreement gives the automaker priority access to ProLogium's Gen4 cells — while a different solid-state battery, from Factorial, has already carried an EQS 749 miles on one charge.
BMW claims a 37% supply-chain CO2e cut for the electric i3 and about 30% for the gas sedan, yet the i3's cells improve less than the iX3's did.
The cylindrical-cell pack that gives the new iX3 its 434-mile EPA rating was recognized in China a day before the SUV's official US launch.
A pilot turned 80 retired GM packs into cathode material for new Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC EVs, though the "100% recycled" claim leaves out lithium.
Only 86 cars are affected, but the defect is unusual: replacement battery control modules that overstate the pack's health, risking sudden power loss and, over time, a battery fire.
Cells built with recycler cylib use lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese recovered entirely from end-of-life Porsche packs — but they're test hardware, not showroom parts.
The reborn A2 claims 12.8 kWh/100 km on the WLTP cycle and up to 646 km of range from €38,200 in Germany. Audi calls it a car built for Europe — and never mentions North America.