First announcement I've seen of Toyota actually using LFP batteries in a future model. EXCLUSIVE Toyota turns to Chinese tech to reach its electric holy grail | Reuters It's sedan for the Chinese market in 2022. The car will be using BYD Blade batteries, which is a technically correct use of the term. The cells are prismatic, but a long thing blade shape instead of a block, which is suppose to be better at giving off heat, and provide structural support the pack. BYD assembles the cells into a premade battery. That lets the car manufacturer skip some designing of pack submodules. https://en.byd.com/news/byds-new-blade-battery-set-to-redefine-ev-safety-standards/ Reportedly, Tesla will be using these for the car below the Model 3 in price.
Some of us have known about this for months and have been fighting the intentional misleading which resulted. It is how the claim that Toyota didn't design bZ4X came about, that it was really a BYD vehicle. Reality is bZ4X was completely designed in-house by Toyota/Subaru and batteries will be supplied by both Panasonic and CATL. The work with BYD is in addition to the bZ brand, vehicles exclusively for the market in China.
Yet when bringing up LFP use by Toyota in other threads, you didn't bother to include sources. Toyota working with a LFP producer has been known. That doesn't give us knowledge of which models may use LFP, or when they may be on the market. Your posts left those interesting bits out, and focused more on making it sound like Toyota using LFP was a big advancement for BEVs. When China has been using LFP in EVs for years. Which is why the suppliers for LFP to others at this time are Chinese battery companies. Tesla is already using them, and all Model 3 RWDs in the US will have them now. All the other major car manufacturers are working on their use in EVs. The Coda EV that came out in 2012 had LFP. LFP has some great positives for its use. Toyota isn't the one to make them next great advancement for EVs though.
