The EV Game Just Changed: 835-Mile Range Mercedes – Game Over ICE
A Mercedes-Benz electric car with solid state batteries just traveled 750 miles and the battery was well, it wasn’t flat. The car could have continued to drive further. This is the beginning of something that could be pretty remarkable. We could be seeing the absolute death of internal combustion within the space of only a few years. Hello my friends, welcome to the channel. I’m Sam Evans. You’re watching the Electric Viking. It’s great to have you with us. Honestly, this is really exciting news. Mercedes-Benz EQS with solid state batteries went 750 mi and still had battery charge left. Now, I don’t know how much it had left, but hey, that’s still an insanely cool feat. Mercedes-Benz EQS vehicles are not particularly small or particularly light either. In February, Mercedes said it put the first car powered by a lithium metal solid state battery on the road using a slightly modified Mercedes-Benz EQS. Mercedes said the vehicle could achieve a real world driving range of more than 620 mi. And well, they weren’t lying. According to the latest test, it can travel much further than Mercedes-Benz predicted. To give you some context, 750 mi, that makes it the longest range electric car in the world. Were you able to buy it today? And 750 mi is 1,27 km. Yeah, that’s uh that’s pretty damn awesome. Now, let’s assume it can go an additional 50 mi. 800 miles. 800 miles is 1,287 km. So, this is the first this could be the first solid state battery for the first proper solid state battery we see in EVs. If it is, imagine where we’re going to be in 10 years from now. Imagine where we’re going to be in 2040 or even 2035. I can’t believe that automakers like Mercedes and BMW are complaining saying that I mean why would anyone want an internal combustion car in 2035 in in 10 years from today if they can get an EV with 1,285 km of range or more potentially. And also if they can get an EV that can charge in 5 minutes and that’s perfectly quiet and has way more power and efficiency than an internal combustion car and doesn’t require servicing and you can charge it at home using your own solar panels. Anyway, after a lightly modified EQS equipped with solidstate batteries drove 750 mi on a single charge, Mercedes tech boss Marcus Schaefer is calling the new EV battery tech a gamecher for EVs. I think that’s a pretty fair statement in this situation. The solid state battery is a true gamecher for electric mobility, said Schaefer. He said the new battery tech delivers not only in the lab but also on the road. After traveling from Stoutgart, Germany to Malmo, Sweden, covering 750 mi, 1,25 km, the EV still had 85 mi of range remaining. In other words, it could have traveled more than 1,300 km on a single charge. Now, apparently, if you look at the actual press release from Mercedes-Benz, there’s a video of this trip and they start driving at nighttime and it says they’re driving, if you look at the video, it appears that they’re driving a speed of 76. Now, I can’t tell if they’re actually driving at 76 km/h or 76 mph. Most of the video, it appears they were traveling at about that average speed. miles or kilometers. It’s impossible to tell, but basically they weren’t going super slow. This this wasn’t some sort of um attempt to hyper mile. The car wasn’t sitting behind trucks. It wasn’t doing anything to basically trick you into thinking this is better than it actually is. So according to Mercedes-Benz, the usable energy of the solid statebased battery was increased by 25% while the weight and size were about the same as the standard EQS model. So if the weight and size were about the same, then in order to get 1,300 km of range from an EV, from a solidstate battery, you could pretty much swap out a similized battery. You don’t need I mean they didn’t need to put in some enormous battery and that’s what you know some of the the tests in China they’ve they’ve gone and put massive battery packs like Neo for example with their semi-olid state battery they put a 150 kWh battery in a sedan which is kind of crazy and yeah they got a lot of range not this much though they got a lot of range but I mean if you’re putting in a massive battery then you know that’s what you’re going to get. Same thing with say for example the uh General Motors the Silverado 1500 pickup truck which got 500 miles of range which is still really impressive but it has an enormous enormous battery pack. Mercedes is actually developing its solid state batteries in collaboration with Formula 1 supplier um Mercedes AMG high performance powertrains or HPP. And the battery cells, they’re actually made by US-based Factorial Energy. They’re also partnering with Hyundai or Hyundai, Stalantis, and other major OEMs, and they have part been partnering with them for quite a long time, working with them to bring these solid state batteries to market. Mercedes says it aims to bring these batteries into serious production by the end of the decade. So, I don’t know if it’s going to take that long. I’m going to guess the bottleneck here would probably potentially be testing, you know, doing enough testing on these batteries, doing say 500,000 km to check how long these batteries will last for. You know, battery degradation, is that potentially a problem? Now, there’s a lot of car manufacturers in Japan in particular claiming that they have their own proprietary solstate batteries. Nissen, Honda, Toyota, those three have said that they will have solid state batteries in their cars. repeatedly they’ve said this they’d have them in 2026 that anyway they made all kinds of promises. They’re now saying by 2028 they’re all going to have them. They have their own proprietary batteries. They won’t release the kind of technology they’re actually using um how far into the development process they are. There’s very few details which I find a bit alarming but if they can bring them out by the end of the decade that would be great for them and great for consumers. Now, I’m skeptical that that’s going to happen, but I do think companies like Factorial that have been investing, you know, working massively on these batteries and clearly working with these massive legacy automakers, they’ve got to be open and and transparent. And seeing Mercedes-Benz test batteries from technically another company, from Factorial, sure, it’s a joint venture, but from Factorial technically, it shows that these batteries are legit. This is not a madeup press release saying we’re going to have these batteries soon. It’s the real thing. And I agree with Mercedes 100%. They are right. These batteries will change the game. Seeing, for example, a 100 kWh battery capable of giving your vehicle 1,300 km of real world range, that’s absolutely the death null for internal combustion. And it’s kind of exciting. I mean, when was internal combustion ever as exciting as what’s happening in the battery sector right now? We’ve got solid state batteries coming from Kadel with the energy density of better than build blade batteries, right? And lasting for 3.6 million miles with 80% battery life left. I mean, and half the price or less than half the price of LFP. Then we’ve got solidstate batteries at the other end. There is so much happening in the battery sector, in the motor sector. We’re seeing these incredible tiny little electric motors now. 13 kg with 700 horsepower. I mean, things never happen at this kind of speed with internal combustion cars. I think a lot of people who hate on EVs, they’re missing out on one of the real things in life you can get a lot of enjoyment and pleasure from having a passion, having, you know, finding passion and finding passion and being curious about new technology. I find it incredibly enjoyable. So, if you know someone you think could benefit from this video, please share it with them. Thanks for watching. [Music]
The EV Game Just Changed: 835-Mile Range Mercedes – Game Over ICE
Mercedes has unveiled a groundbreaking EV boasting an 835-mile range on a single charge, setting a new benchmark for electric mobility and pushing internal combustion cars closer to irrelevance. With this leap, the EV game may have just reached its turning point.
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