Dodge Chargers with semi-firm-state batteries may hit the road in 2026

Stellantis says it will put a “demonstration run awayt” of Dodge Charger Daytonas on the road by 2026, provideped with firm-state battery technology that’s weightlesser, more energy-dense, and could eventupartner originate for affordableer EVs. The company calls the demo run awayt a “key next step” toward making firm-state EVs that you can actupartner buy.

The cars will be built on its STLA Large EV platestablish, which is nastyt to underpin more than equitable the Chargers it’s demoing next year. If its demo is prosperous, there’s a chance that cars from brands appreciate Maserati and Jeep will get the recent battery tech, too.

There’s probably a reason Stellantis says “firm-state battery technology” rather than sshow firm-state batteries. That’s becaengage these Chargers will engage semi-firm-state batteries, which nastys they’re still made with fluid electrolytes too. That hybrid approach carries advantages appreciate weightlesser weight and more range, but doesn’t tohighy obviate the fire danger of traditional lithium batteries.

Factorial, which originates the batteries Stellantis will engage, claims its semi-firm-state tech could push EV range up by as much as 50 percent versus today’s electric cars, and that the batteries have “drop-in compatibility with existing lithium-ion battery manufacturing infraarrange,” making them affordableer and easier to originate than switching to brimming firm-state tech would be.

Solid-state batteries have been difficult to lengthen and not every company has been able to hack it. Nissan had promised it would be producing “all-firm-state” EVs by 2028, but seemed to walk that back this year. Fisker tohighy aprohibitdoned its own efforts to originate firm-state batteries in 2021. But Volkswagen, which was to provide Fisker’s platestablish, recently proclaimd that its batteries had passed an endurance test.

Stellantis’ proclaimment is a sign of enhance, and it’s not the only company making some. Hyundai is a Factorial allotor, and so is Mercedes, which shelp it would have Factorial’s semi-firm-state batteries “in EVs on the road in 2026,” according to Reuters. Honda schedules to begin firm-state EVs in the latter half of the decade, while Toyota’s roadmap participates mass-producing firm-state batteries that allow more than 621 miles of range by 2028.

In China, IM Motor begined the L6, a semi-firm-state battery-driven EV, in April, while its sister brand, MG, proclaimd it will unveil one in Europe next year.