[float4]

Toyota already said it was around the corner in 2017[0]. Now it's 2023 and it's still around the corner. I'll believe it when I see it.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmitt/2017/07/25/ultraf...

[amadeuspagel]

> In another five years, and if a report in a Japanese newspaper is to be believed, Toyota will have the key technology for wide-spread adoption of battery-electric vehicles: Solid-state batteries with twice the range of today’s EVs, while charging only in minutes.

Well, it's six years now, but that doesn't seem that much of a delay?

[simondotau]

Toyota are still saying it's five years away. So that's a minimum of eleven years.

[TheRealSteel]

The Tesla Model 3 has been out for six years. Toyota could release this tomorrow and still have alot of catching up to do.

[Dalewyn]

About every 3 years[1], Toyota comes around to say they have a new battery tech coming out in about 3 years.

I wish this was a stupid meme, but apparently this is more reality than meme.

[1]: https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=22960448&cid=6...

[throw0101a]

> Well, it's six years now, but that doesn't seem that much of a delay?

If Tesla can work that way, why can't Toyota?

[JKCalhoun]

> Toyota already said it was around the corner...

One of those "corners" that are more like a telephone pole that we keep going around.

[simbolit]

HN really needs an audio player with a certain Run DMC song on loop.

[jansan]

I did not know there is a song from Run DMC called "Two more weeks".