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Originally Posted by Articus
I don't think we'll see Toyota go the battery route. The company is no fan of batteries or the Tesla Model S. Lithium Air batteries are way off in the future by the way. The problem is the battery electrode surface needs oxygen, not all the other junk that can be found in "air", which leads to side reactions on the electrode surface that block the oxygen from seeing the surface. This means the eventually the entire electrode surface will "die". So until they find a way to completely scrub the air of hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide. Even if they do it's not practical for racing.
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Theyre not a fan of batteries for 0-emission vehicles. But battery tech is still a huge deal. They are in a partnership with bmw to produce lithium metal air batteries. The bmw i3 is suppose to have one of these types of batteries by 2017.