This is a surprising VW first vehicle powered by a hard -body battery

• Earlier this month, Volkswagen, a Volkswagen in Munich in Munich, demonstrated its first vehicle fed with hard -body batteries: Ducati V21L electric motorcycle.

• VW works on battery -powered cars and motorcycles, and hard body batteries see it as a way to make them competitive and profitable.

• The bicycle in question was Ritas about 15 feet according to its power.

Volkswagen shocked the future of electric cars in Iaa Munich, revealing the first vehicle in its large company umbrella, which is traded by brands that will be powered by a solid body battery-Ducati V21L from Motooe.

Ducc was the first Volkswagen group vehicle to operate in a solid -body lithium metal battery, although everything we saw was an anonymous motorcyclist to go on stage and stopped. Still, it is progress, especially hard batteries around the world.

The power source shown was created by Quantumcape and Powerco.

“The future of e-Mobility: Powerco, Ducati and Audi for the first time provided Quantumscape innovative solid body batteries with Quantumcape batteries,” Volkswagen shocked the event after the incident. “Technical demonstrates set the next phase along the way from the lab to the series. It offers a look at the future of e-mobility, even longer ranges and shorter charging time.”

Siva Sivaram, CEO of Quantumscape, was on stage with a bicycle. He was a bit real.

“We have to go, but we are on it,” he said. “Our goal is set: commercial car cells until the end of the decade.”

Some Googleling provides a wide range of new technology. Hard -body batteries replace the electrolyte of fluid or gel with conventional lithium -ion batteries, which allows to increase energy density, faster charging, longer life expectancy and improved safety due to the use of nephlamic electrolyte. Hard -body batteries are considered to be a “new generation” energy storage and promise to use extensively in electric vehicles and other applications.

So far, researchers have avoided a functioning, massive and accessible solid body battery. So far. Maybe. It is difficult to find hard electrolytes that lead well to ions are difficult. It is also difficult for the lithium dendrites to prevent, little needle -like poker that can grow and pierce the separator. Hard electrolytes can also be fragile, and if they break, the battery does not work. The list continues and continue.

Nevertheless, the IAA scene was a solid -body battery -driven Ducati.

Interestingly, the VW Group has chosen Ducati V21L for its battery demonstration. This motorcycle is the specification of the FIM Motoe Electric Motorcycle Racing series, which will be a break due to the little fans’ interest.

“The Ducati Motoe project has been developed to create an internal knowledge in the company to be ready if and ever the battery technology has allowed an electric road bicycle, according to Borg Panigale manufacturer’s values,” Ducati explained, adding that it has accumulated a lot of data from the series.

In three years, Ducati presented bikes to racers, and Ducati said cell development on bicycles allowed to save 18 pounds in battery packaging. This weight saving was a significant reduction, but still inappropriate for the bikes to be as light as an internal combustion race bike with a proper range.

They saw the V21L about 844 watts per liter, 10-80% boot in a little more than 12 minutes and the ability to make enough energy for race without battery fading. But it was still not enough.

“For this reason, Ducati cooperates with Volkswagen Group companies between various research and development activities to continue studying and testing new technologies to create battery packaging with higher energy density.”

Toyota and Honda work, among other things, on solid -body batteries. If someone can force this technology to act, the transition to the future of the power plant will be much easier. The problem is that it works, and on the IAA Munich VW scene everyone who really saw was a motorcycle ride about 15 feet.