Foxconn Promises To Sell A Solid-State Battery In 2024

Does Hon Hai share the motto “We don’t say all we do, but what we say, we do” with Toyota?

The Automotive Industry Should Take Foxconn’s EV Ambitions Seriously

Gustavo Henrique Ruffo

By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo

Oct 19, 2020 at 2:52pm ET

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This is another article taken from why you should take Foxconn’s plans for an electric platform seriously. We have already given the “TL,DR” crowd the chance to have another one of these reasons in a single article. It was related to its use of mega castings for the MIH Open Platform. If that was not enough, Hon Hai (the official Foxconn name) also plans to sell “commercial solid-state batteries” by 2024, one year before Toyota.

Again, if you have already taken a look at the complete article, this may not be new to you. If you didn’t, you might want to check it in the link above. This is the short version of one of the most crucial information on that text.

The irony here is that the Japanese company is pretty confident it will meet its target. Akio Toyoda would be famous for saying: “We don’t say all we do, but what we say, we do.” It is a matter of checking it Foxconn follows the same motto.

The Automotive Industry Should Take Foxconn’s EV Ambitions Seriously

Jerry Hsiao (Xiao Caiyou) – Hon Hai’s Chief Product Officer (CPO) – said at the HHTD 2020 that the company made huge advances in batteries with partners such as CATL and SES. It is not clear which of these partners will produce the new SSB, but CATL is not the biggest battery producer in the world by chance – we’d bet on it.

This new SSB would have LMNO (lithium manganese nickel oxide) as anodes and SiC (silicon-carbon) as cathodes. Some believe that silicon-carbon electrodes can only work as anodes, but there are patents for them as cathodes as well. Regardless, Hon Hai’s goal would be to eliminate the need for a negative electrode anyway.

Foxconn’s electrolyte would be composed of a metal oxide ceramic film that is under research since 2017. The company claims that additives it helped develop have increased battery cycle life by 10 percent, reduced the battery weight by 50 percent, and shrunk it by almost 17 percent.