Coupling Business Of Honda And Sony Will Create Solid State Battery For Their OWN EV

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JAKARTA - Honda has collaborated with Sony in creating a joint venture in electrification efforts. As a collaboration, the two companies will build their own solid state batteries.

Honda plans to invest 43 billion yen (Rp4.57 trillion) to build a solid-state battery production line in Tochigi, Japan by 2024.

Shinji Aoyama, global electrification leader of Honda, said automakers are expected to incorporate solid-state batteries into production cars by the end of the decade, possibly 2028 or 2029.

"In the spring of 2024, we will start a pilot line (for manufacturing). Then if we succeed, we believe we can launch vehicles with solid-state batteries at the end of 2029, 2028," Shinji Aoyama, Honda's global electrification leader, told Ars Technica.

At the same meeting, global CEO and president Honda Toshihiro Mibe also added that their cars had not yet decided which vehicles would be the first to be equipped with solid-state batteries.

Mibe noted, the company not only wants to equip its car with a solid-state battery, but also to the production of its motorcycle.

Plus, there are more financially profitable uses: selling technology to partners and other automakers.

However, it may take two to three years before Honda describes its solid-state business plan. But once the technology is ready for use, Honda will be happy to sell it to anyone.