The R&D center in Japan is meant to iron out Honda’s solid-state battery tech and for battery development, but series production is still a ways off.

Honda has unveiled a demonstration facility in Japan for the production of solid-state batteries in January 2025, which will be used in electrified models introduced in the second half of the 2020s. The demo facility’s

Solid-state battery tech could double the range of Honda’s EVs by the late 2020s, its R&D chief claims. Keiji Otsu said it wants to reduce the size of batteries by 50 percent and reduce cost by 25 percent.