Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars
theguardian.com
Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes
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Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes
It sounds like you're implying you wouldn't have had to install it without this news breaking. Is that the case? I'm curious about this topic if you care to elaborate. What is a bolt press machine? How has this news affected you?
I am hoping it is more of a "they should have seen this coming" kind of thing. In such a way that they should have had ample time before the line was made active to install it.
A bolt press is what it sounds like. It presses the studs into the hub unit (idk why we call studs bolts). I think we, as a company, knew about it before the news broke. We had to re-configure the line to add a machine that wasn't there originally and now we need to changeover between the bolt-type and bolt-less. This changeover is more involved than you might think since some of the components were redesigned for the bolt-type, necessitating some new tooling.