Nissan opened its first all-solid-state battery line at its Yokohama plant in Japan earlier this year. The company aims to ...

Solid-state batteries are nothing new – solid electrolytes were created in the 1800s by Michael Faraday, and they are currently used in medical implants. But a technique to manufacture them ...

In short, solid-state batteries are a bit like a formula 1 car: they run fast and hard, but not for long. Lithium-ion batteries, on the other hand, don't perform as well, but they last much longer.

Solid Power, spun out of a research venture at the University of Colorado in Boulder, is producing the material for its solid state battery cells in a new, 75,000-square-foot factory in Thornton an… ...

Reportedly, that rival Chinese technology company also recently patented a solid-state battery design, one that offers a claimed range of 745 miles (1,200 km) on China’s light-duty electric ...

It makes for a shaky time for makers of EVs, but last week a company called QuantumScape — backed by Volkswagen — announced what it says is a major breakthrough in solid-state battery production.

And Mercedes-Benz is at the very pinnacle of that effort. The German giant is already testing its own solid-state batteries for its EVs with a range of over 620 miles (1,000 km) on a single charge.