Electric vehicles with a power reserve of over 1,000 km may appear in 2027.

Hongqi has assembled the first prototype of an electric vehicle in its history, equipped with a fully solid-state traction battery of its own design. According to the Chinese manufacturer's plan, the first production machines with solid-state batteries may appear on the market as early as 2027, and limited and exclusive series of flagship models will be the first to receive the technology. This is stated in a message from Hongqi, which was received by Izvestia on January 26.

The technology carrier is the Tiangong 06 serial mid-size electric crossover, which serves as a test platform. The standard version of the model with a lithium-ion battery provides a range of up to 780 km, but with a solid-state traction battery, the electric car is potentially capable of traveling more than 1,000 km on a single charge.

The Tiangong 06 prototype acts as a "technological bridge" between the laboratory stage and future small-scale production. The Hongqi Research Institute took 470 days to develop the first "complete" set of a solid-state traction battery.

Solid-state traction batteries are considered the major technological breakthrough of the next decade in the automotive industry. Compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries, they have a new level of safety due to the absence of a flammable liquid electrolyte and a higher energy density. In addition, the solid electrolyte shows a much smaller drop in performance at low temperatures, which will solve the problem of reducing the power reserve in winter.

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