Is this the world’s first solid-state battery?
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CES often features bold tech promises with 2-year hype cycles. Henrik Fisker claimed solid-state battery breakthroughs in 2018 for 2020 production, but the EMotion car never launched.
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CES is a land of bold announcements of amazing, innovative products and technologies that will revolutionize the world, often set for release in two years' time. Twenty-four months seems to be about the right hype window: close enough to generate excitement and investment, but far enough that everyone forgets about your promises before that deadline quietly comes and goes.
It was CES 2018 when Henrik Fisker made such a proclamation, saying that his team of gurus had cracked the code of solid-state batteries. By 2020, he said, those batteries would be in mass production. The car was the EMotion, which never did come to market. By 2021, the c …