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Solid-state battery has many drawbacks that NIO will never tell you

NIO announced that their EV will be using solid-state battery this summer. NIO went on to boost the strength of using such battery. But in the article, Electrek found that the battery is very expensive compared to current battery.
In a separate article, it was found that solid-state battery has many drawbacks beside high cost which NIO will never tell you such as it uses more lithium and cannot be recycled.
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One huge asterisk is that the 150-kWh pack could cost as much as an entire ET5 sedan, meaning cost parity with current battery chemistry remains lightyears away.
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Solid-state battery drawbacks:
1. The problem is that solid-state batteries could actually use even more lithium than today's lithium-ion packs.
2. According to Lindsay, as of now there are no effective ways to recycle solid-state packs.
3. As these batteries age, the shape of the lithium electrode has been changing, growing in weird, organic ways. The lithium is forming what are called dendrites, branching structures of metal that literally grow into the solid electrolyte. Eventually, those dendrites grow long enough to reach through to the other side of the electrolyte, shorting out the battery pack.
4. Perhaps the biggest drawback of all is cost. Solid-state batteries not only require higher densities of rare metals, but their construction technique is wholly different from that of today's lithium-ion cells. That means new factories, new procedures, and new benefits of scale manufacturing that are still being invented. There is, however, potential for these batteries to be even cheaper—eventually. "The first commercialization of a solid-state battery will not be cost-competitive with [today's] lithium-ion batteries; it will come at a cost premium,"
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