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Suppose it has to cater for real-world expectations, side mirrors are no longer cameras either by the looks of them.

In fact the first design was very premium and i was waiting for this change. Im also waiting for a change interior because it is too premium. The minimum selling price of this vehicle is 500k. They should to decrease this price.
 

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There are changes in the design and I did not like the new one at all



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Aside from the mirrors and the addition of spotlights all they have done is made the front part of the bumper darker (perhaps a different material?) , which makes no sense to me. Where has the TOGG logo at the front of the car gone, and why have they added this random section of black?

Hopefully they revert it, or atleast remove the dark part of the front bumper because it has made the car look much less appealing.
 
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The Battery Production Capacity is enough for a Potential of 400.000 Cars annually.

But it depends on the Demand.
More important is the fact that most places aren't ready for Electric Cars. They are going to need many Charging Stations.
Battery is Farasis, afaik there is no production.

I don't wanna be that guy but the battery is Farasis, engines are Bosch, all the machinery in the factory is Dürr.
 

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TOGG Gemlik production facility progress. 04-10-2021
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TOGG Factory Progress.

Progress 27.07.21

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Progress 27.09.21 (2 Months later)

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Target 02.2022

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New battery breakthrough from Farasis. Farasis is the battery partner of the TOGG consortium. Recently a new company ( SIRO (SI)lk (RO)ad Temiz Enerji Çözümleri San. Tic. A.Ş.) is founded to produce batteries in TR.


Farasis-Energy-Gen-4-battery-cell-specs-1024x483.jpg

Teslas current energy density is 260 Wh/kg.
 

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Home from home: Mercedes-Benz doubles down on China​

Mercedes-Benz, the German company founded by the inventors of the motor car, is pouring more resources into its cutting-edge research and design capabilities in China as the centre of gravity of the new auto world shifts eastwards.

In a drive to create a "home away from home", Mercedes-Benz is doubling down on bases in Beijing and Shanghai to stay ahead of regulations and consumer trends in a car market that outstrips the United States and Germany combined.

Three years after initially announcing plans to strengthen its research and development (R&D) in the country, the luxury car brand owned by Daimler (DAIGn.DE) will unveil its new Tech Center China in Beijing this month.

Reuters has spoken to four people close to the tech centre and the brand's Chinese design studio who are familiar with the company's new China strategy. All declined to be named because they are not allowed to speak with the media.


With 1,000 engineers, the new tech centre is more than three times the size of the one Mercedes-Benz opened in 2014 and the first outside Germany that can test "everything", putting it more "on par" technically with the far bigger R&D headquarters near Stuttgart, a person close to the centre said.

Mercedes-Benz has also invested significantly in upgrading its Chinese design studio and has moved the whole team from Beijing to Shanghai, a megalopolis of about 25 million people known as the car design capital of China.

Mercedes-Benz has good reason to elevate its Chinese operations.

Its car sales in China jumped 12% last year to a record 774,000 despite the pandemic, streets ahead of its next two markets, Germany on 286,000 and the United States with 275,000.


About 80% of the cars it sold in China were also made there, typically with an array of China-only features and models, and Asia overall accounted for almost half its global sales in 2021.

China's auto market, the biggest in the world since 2009, is expected to carry on growing steadily, with demand forecast to reach 35 million vehicles by about 2030 versus 25 million now.


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'SECOND HOME'

But Mercedes-Benz, like all foreign automakers in China, is under growing pressure from local EV startups such as Xpeng , Li Auto and Nio (NIO.N) and their stylish vehicles with high-tech features tailored to Chinese consumers.


That's why the German carmaker's "second home" strategy for China is focused on making its design and technology more agile, to respond quickly to the ever-shifting landscape and to firmly entrench the Mercedes-Benz brand, the four sources said.

"The expectations in China are for the in-car experience to be served by a localised digital services ecosystem, and such solutions must be conceived and built by people that live in China and truly understand the mobile internet," Bill Russo, head of consultancy Automobility Ltd in Shanghai, said.

Mercedes-Benz customers in China are 36 years old on average - roughly 20 years younger than in Germany - and are more tech-savvy, but they are also notoriously disloyal, hopping from brand to brand as trends shift.

Mercedes has spent 1.1 billion yuan ($170 million) upgrading the centre, with much of the investment ensuring it can do an array of testing locally - rather send new technologies back to the Sindelfingen headquarters in Germany.


"A key reason for the expansion is to gain the proximity to those customers and their needs," the person close to the tech centre said. "Here, we finally have everything we need to test the car fully," said the source.

The centre has modern chassis test benches and others including for noise, vibration and harshness, as well as batteries and e-drive powertrains and it has the flexibility to swap in new ones as technology develops, two sources said.

Mercedes has also added functions deemed important for Chinese customers, such as a team dedicated to intelligent, connected electric vehicle (EV) technology.

"Tech savvy customers here require that you're very local in terms of intelligence, connectivity and autonomous driving," one of the sources said.

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THINK ROSE GOLD

All four sources said a sharper focus on the customer in China in recent years is already paying off.

A drive to create China-only colours led to research into the preferences of younger luxury goods buyers. While sensitive to being seen as hip and tech-savvy, there has been a revived interest in styles inspired by China's ancient dynasties.

As part of that research, the studio came up with "rose gold metallic", a variation on rose gold tones adjusted for cars first used as an exterior colour for the Mercedes-Benz A-Class L sedan in 2018. New EVs such as the EQA and EQB now come in rose gold, and it's also an interior tone in the EQC.


"Global ideas, inspired by China," said one source close to the studio, adding that while Mercedes needs to cater to its China customers first, some China-grown ideas will go global.

Moving the studio to Shanghai was partly driven by the need to significantly speed up the design process by making it more digital, as most virtual model-making vendors are based there.

"Besides, Shanghai is a lot easier a place to recruit design talent," said the source close to the studio, which is just north of city's prime waterfront district The Bund.

Designers typically sketch a car on paper or a touch-sensitive computer screen and expert modellers then help sculpt the designs into clay models. Mercedes-Benz plans to more or less do away with those physical models.


Under the new process, the Shanghai studio will review its designs using virtual tools, except for the occasional quarter-size physical models, according to one of the four sources.

If the studio makes it to the final of internal competitions for car designs, it will send designers and modellers to the main studio in Germany to create life-size models for the last round, the source said.

RULES OF THE ROAD

Daimler's drive to strengthen its technology development in China also comes at a time when the cost of failing to be in step with Beijing policymakers has never been higher.


Beijing's sweeping regulatory crackdown in recent months has wiped billions of dollars off the value of some of the country's best-known private firms, and has weighed on the auto sector.

That's partly because tensions between the United States and China have created a tricky environment for foreign companies to import technology developed elsewhere.

And from battery technology to new kinds of mobility including smart connectivity and autonomous driving, Chinese policies and regulations are shifting and evolving rapidly.

"If you respond to change after policies and regulation kick in, it's too late," said one of the contacts close to Daimler.


With that in mind, the tech centre works closely with the brand's external affairs team which keeps its finger on the regulatory pulse - and that has proved key when it comes to so-called vehicle-to-everything, or V2X, technology.

V2X controls communications between a car and "everything" outside, from 5G cellular signals to low-earth-orbit satellites to smart traffic lights and cameras on the road.

In China, vehicles will soon have to come with full-fledged V2X capabilities to achieve a top safety ranking under a new version of its vehicle safety evaluation system, or New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), which is expected in 2025.

"We knew this regulation was going to be implemented. We started developing those self-drive technologies including V2X to be in compliance with the new law and did so well before new regulation kicks in," one of the tech centre sources said.

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The Germans are entering the Chinese market fast. There are important lessons for TOGG.
 

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Home from home: Mercedes-Benz doubles down on China​

Mercedes-Benz, the German company founded by the inventors of the motor car, is pouring more resources into its cutting-edge research and design capabilities in China as the centre of gravity of the new auto world shifts eastwards.

In a drive to create a "home away from home", Mercedes-Benz is doubling down on bases in Beijing and Shanghai to stay ahead of regulations and consumer trends in a car market that outstrips the United States and Germany combined.

Three years after initially announcing plans to strengthen its research and development (R&D) in the country, the luxury car brand owned by Daimler (DAIGn.DE) will unveil its new Tech Center China in Beijing this month.

Reuters has spoken to four people close to the tech centre and the brand's Chinese design studio who are familiar with the company's new China strategy. All declined to be named because they are not allowed to speak with the media.


With 1,000 engineers, the new tech centre is more than three times the size of the one Mercedes-Benz opened in 2014 and the first outside Germany that can test "everything", putting it more "on par" technically with the far bigger R&D headquarters near Stuttgart, a person close to the centre said.

Mercedes-Benz has also invested significantly in upgrading its Chinese design studio and has moved the whole team from Beijing to Shanghai, a megalopolis of about 25 million people known as the car design capital of China.

Mercedes-Benz has good reason to elevate its Chinese operations.

Its car sales in China jumped 12% last year to a record 774,000 despite the pandemic, streets ahead of its next two markets, Germany on 286,000 and the United States with 275,000.


About 80% of the cars it sold in China were also made there, typically with an array of China-only features and models, and Asia overall accounted for almost half its global sales in 2021.

China's auto market, the biggest in the world since 2009, is expected to carry on growing steadily, with demand forecast to reach 35 million vehicles by about 2030 versus 25 million now.


FBYTpwIXEAQJUGj


'SECOND HOME'

But Mercedes-Benz, like all foreign automakers in China, is under growing pressure from local EV startups such as Xpeng , Li Auto and Nio (NIO.N) and their stylish vehicles with high-tech features tailored to Chinese consumers.


That's why the German carmaker's "second home" strategy for China is focused on making its design and technology more agile, to respond quickly to the ever-shifting landscape and to firmly entrench the Mercedes-Benz brand, the four sources said.

"The expectations in China are for the in-car experience to be served by a localised digital services ecosystem, and such solutions must be conceived and built by people that live in China and truly understand the mobile internet," Bill Russo, head of consultancy Automobility Ltd in Shanghai, said.

Mercedes-Benz customers in China are 36 years old on average - roughly 20 years younger than in Germany - and are more tech-savvy, but they are also notoriously disloyal, hopping from brand to brand as trends shift.

Mercedes has spent 1.1 billion yuan ($170 million) upgrading the centre, with much of the investment ensuring it can do an array of testing locally - rather send new technologies back to the Sindelfingen headquarters in Germany.


"A key reason for the expansion is to gain the proximity to those customers and their needs," the person close to the tech centre said. "Here, we finally have everything we need to test the car fully," said the source.

The centre has modern chassis test benches and others including for noise, vibration and harshness, as well as batteries and e-drive powertrains and it has the flexibility to swap in new ones as technology develops, two sources said.

Mercedes has also added functions deemed important for Chinese customers, such as a team dedicated to intelligent, connected electric vehicle (EV) technology.

"Tech savvy customers here require that you're very local in terms of intelligence, connectivity and autonomous driving," one of the sources said.

FBYTpwIXIAMmak4


THINK ROSE GOLD

All four sources said a sharper focus on the customer in China in recent years is already paying off.

A drive to create China-only colours led to research into the preferences of younger luxury goods buyers. While sensitive to being seen as hip and tech-savvy, there has been a revived interest in styles inspired by China's ancient dynasties.

As part of that research, the studio came up with "rose gold metallic", a variation on rose gold tones adjusted for cars first used as an exterior colour for the Mercedes-Benz A-Class L sedan in 2018. New EVs such as the EQA and EQB now come in rose gold, and it's also an interior tone in the EQC.


"Global ideas, inspired by China," said one source close to the studio, adding that while Mercedes needs to cater to its China customers first, some China-grown ideas will go global.

Moving the studio to Shanghai was partly driven by the need to significantly speed up the design process by making it more digital, as most virtual model-making vendors are based there.

"Besides, Shanghai is a lot easier a place to recruit design talent," said the source close to the studio, which is just north of city's prime waterfront district The Bund.

Designers typically sketch a car on paper or a touch-sensitive computer screen and expert modellers then help sculpt the designs into clay models. Mercedes-Benz plans to more or less do away with those physical models.


Under the new process, the Shanghai studio will review its designs using virtual tools, except for the occasional quarter-size physical models, according to one of the four sources.

If the studio makes it to the final of internal competitions for car designs, it will send designers and modellers to the main studio in Germany to create life-size models for the last round, the source said.

RULES OF THE ROAD

Daimler's drive to strengthen its technology development in China also comes at a time when the cost of failing to be in step with Beijing policymakers has never been higher.


Beijing's sweeping regulatory crackdown in recent months has wiped billions of dollars off the value of some of the country's best-known private firms, and has weighed on the auto sector.

That's partly because tensions between the United States and China have created a tricky environment for foreign companies to import technology developed elsewhere.

And from battery technology to new kinds of mobility including smart connectivity and autonomous driving, Chinese policies and regulations are shifting and evolving rapidly.

"If you respond to change after policies and regulation kick in, it's too late," said one of the contacts close to Daimler.


With that in mind, the tech centre works closely with the brand's external affairs team which keeps its finger on the regulatory pulse - and that has proved key when it comes to so-called vehicle-to-everything, or V2X, technology.

V2X controls communications between a car and "everything" outside, from 5G cellular signals to low-earth-orbit satellites to smart traffic lights and cameras on the road.

In China, vehicles will soon have to come with full-fledged V2X capabilities to achieve a top safety ranking under a new version of its vehicle safety evaluation system, or New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), which is expected in 2025.

"We knew this regulation was going to be implemented. We started developing those self-drive technologies including V2X to be in compliance with the new law and did so well before new regulation kicks in," one of the tech centre sources said.

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The Germans are entering the Chinese market fast. There are important lessons for TOGG.

Mercedes is a heavy weight. Its going to be hard for TOGG to compete.

I do believe togg should also try out motorsport.
 

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Home from home: Mercedes-Benz doubles down on China​

Mercedes-Benz, the German company founded by the inventors of the motor car, is pouring more resources into its cutting-edge research and design capabilities in China as the centre of gravity of the new auto world shifts eastwards.

In a drive to create a "home away from home", Mercedes-Benz is doubling down on bases in Beijing and Shanghai to stay ahead of regulations and consumer trends in a car market that outstrips the United States and Germany combined.

Three years after initially announcing plans to strengthen its research and development (R&D) in the country, the luxury car brand owned by Daimler (DAIGn.DE) will unveil its new Tech Center China in Beijing this month.

Reuters has spoken to four people close to the tech centre and the brand's Chinese design studio who are familiar with the company's new China strategy. All declined to be named because they are not allowed to speak with the media.


With 1,000 engineers, the new tech centre is more than three times the size of the one Mercedes-Benz opened in 2014 and the first outside Germany that can test "everything", putting it more "on par" technically with the far bigger R&D headquarters near Stuttgart, a person close to the centre said.

Mercedes-Benz has also invested significantly in upgrading its Chinese design studio and has moved the whole team from Beijing to Shanghai, a megalopolis of about 25 million people known as the car design capital of China.

Mercedes-Benz has good reason to elevate its Chinese operations.

Its car sales in China jumped 12% last year to a record 774,000 despite the pandemic, streets ahead of its next two markets, Germany on 286,000 and the United States with 275,000.


About 80% of the cars it sold in China were also made there, typically with an array of China-only features and models, and Asia overall accounted for almost half its global sales in 2021.

China's auto market, the biggest in the world since 2009, is expected to carry on growing steadily, with demand forecast to reach 35 million vehicles by about 2030 versus 25 million now.


FBYTpwIXEAQJUGj


'SECOND HOME'

But Mercedes-Benz, like all foreign automakers in China, is under growing pressure from local EV startups such as Xpeng , Li Auto and Nio (NIO.N) and their stylish vehicles with high-tech features tailored to Chinese consumers.


That's why the German carmaker's "second home" strategy for China is focused on making its design and technology more agile, to respond quickly to the ever-shifting landscape and to firmly entrench the Mercedes-Benz brand, the four sources said.

"The expectations in China are for the in-car experience to be served by a localised digital services ecosystem, and such solutions must be conceived and built by people that live in China and truly understand the mobile internet," Bill Russo, head of consultancy Automobility Ltd in Shanghai, said.

Mercedes-Benz customers in China are 36 years old on average - roughly 20 years younger than in Germany - and are more tech-savvy, but they are also notoriously disloyal, hopping from brand to brand as trends shift.

Mercedes has spent 1.1 billion yuan ($170 million) upgrading the centre, with much of the investment ensuring it can do an array of testing locally - rather send new technologies back to the Sindelfingen headquarters in Germany.


"A key reason for the expansion is to gain the proximity to those customers and their needs," the person close to the tech centre said. "Here, we finally have everything we need to test the car fully," said the source.

The centre has modern chassis test benches and others including for noise, vibration and harshness, as well as batteries and e-drive powertrains and it has the flexibility to swap in new ones as technology develops, two sources said.

Mercedes has also added functions deemed important for Chinese customers, such as a team dedicated to intelligent, connected electric vehicle (EV) technology.

"Tech savvy customers here require that you're very local in terms of intelligence, connectivity and autonomous driving," one of the sources said.

FBYTpwIXIAMmak4


THINK ROSE GOLD

All four sources said a sharper focus on the customer in China in recent years is already paying off.

A drive to create China-only colours led to research into the preferences of younger luxury goods buyers. While sensitive to being seen as hip and tech-savvy, there has been a revived interest in styles inspired by China's ancient dynasties.

As part of that research, the studio came up with "rose gold metallic", a variation on rose gold tones adjusted for cars first used as an exterior colour for the Mercedes-Benz A-Class L sedan in 2018. New EVs such as the EQA and EQB now come in rose gold, and it's also an interior tone in the EQC.


"Global ideas, inspired by China," said one source close to the studio, adding that while Mercedes needs to cater to its China customers first, some China-grown ideas will go global.

Moving the studio to Shanghai was partly driven by the need to significantly speed up the design process by making it more digital, as most virtual model-making vendors are based there.

"Besides, Shanghai is a lot easier a place to recruit design talent," said the source close to the studio, which is just north of city's prime waterfront district The Bund.

Designers typically sketch a car on paper or a touch-sensitive computer screen and expert modellers then help sculpt the designs into clay models. Mercedes-Benz plans to more or less do away with those physical models.


Under the new process, the Shanghai studio will review its designs using virtual tools, except for the occasional quarter-size physical models, according to one of the four sources.

If the studio makes it to the final of internal competitions for car designs, it will send designers and modellers to the main studio in Germany to create life-size models for the last round, the source said.

RULES OF THE ROAD

Daimler's drive to strengthen its technology development in China also comes at a time when the cost of failing to be in step with Beijing policymakers has never been higher.


Beijing's sweeping regulatory crackdown in recent months has wiped billions of dollars off the value of some of the country's best-known private firms, and has weighed on the auto sector.

That's partly because tensions between the United States and China have created a tricky environment for foreign companies to import technology developed elsewhere.

And from battery technology to new kinds of mobility including smart connectivity and autonomous driving, Chinese policies and regulations are shifting and evolving rapidly.

"If you respond to change after policies and regulation kick in, it's too late," said one of the contacts close to Daimler.


With that in mind, the tech centre works closely with the brand's external affairs team which keeps its finger on the regulatory pulse - and that has proved key when it comes to so-called vehicle-to-everything, or V2X, technology.

V2X controls communications between a car and "everything" outside, from 5G cellular signals to low-earth-orbit satellites to smart traffic lights and cameras on the road.

In China, vehicles will soon have to come with full-fledged V2X capabilities to achieve a top safety ranking under a new version of its vehicle safety evaluation system, or New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), which is expected in 2025.

"We knew this regulation was going to be implemented. We started developing those self-drive technologies including V2X to be in compliance with the new law and did so well before new regulation kicks in," one of the tech centre sources said.

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The Germans are entering the Chinese market fast. There are important lessons for TOGG.
A good share from the Turkish domestic market will be a healthy dose for TOGG until they increase in house tech to a substantial level after which they can target export markets as well. Farasis partnership is a boon as the specs they announced for their Gen 4 battery tech is very palatable and can allow TOGG to come up with attractive end products.
 

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New battery breakthrough from Farasis. Farasis is the battery partner of the TOGG consortium. Recently a new company ( SIRO (SI)lk (RO)ad Temiz Enerji Çözümleri San. Tic. A.Ş.) is founded to produce batteries in TR.


Farasis-Energy-Gen-4-battery-cell-specs-1024x483.jpg

Teslas current energy density is 260 Wh/kg.
330+ Wh/kg ? Is there even such a thing?
 

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Turkey has daily electricity and grid problems. Electricity is daily gone for 2 or 3 hours in the city where i live.

These electric cars would put so much pressure at the electricity infrastructure (what about the millions of charge posts we must build) that households can live in a normal way.

The Netherlands has a far better and more modern electricity infrastructure, and even in the Netherlands the electric cars are causing for daily errors in the electricity net.
It will take some time for electric cars to have a sizable user base, I am sure there will be a smooth transition for the electric grid to adapt to. New built condos are required to have charging stations already. There were already charging stations being built in Istanbul but electric cars didn't appear and station building had stopped and rolled back. Turkey is quick to adapt to innovation in the recent years, it will be smooth.
 
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Turkey has daily electricity and grid problems. Electricity is daily gone for 2 or 3 hours in the city where i live.

These electric cars would put so much pressure at the electricity infrastructure (what about the millions of charge posts we must build) that households can live in a normal way.

The Netherlands has a far better and more modern electricity infrastructure, and even in the Netherlands the electric cars are causing for daily errors in the electricity net.

There's a Nuclear power plant that's being built which will alleviate much of Turkey's energy problems, including a likelihood of a second powerplant.

That's a bit of a stretch isn't it, millions? There isn't even a million charge points in the US of A and they have over a million EVs in use. A couple hundred thousand charge points would be ideal for Turkey in the next 10-20 years..

Well apparently not if they are having constant issues, perhaps their population adopted EVs quicker than their infrastructure could catch up... Does Netherlands still import 20% of it's electricity?
 

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330+ Wh/kg ? Is there even such a thing?
Yes, there is. It is a new lithium-silicon/carbon chemistry. It is very similar to lithium-ion batteries. Graphite anode is replaced by a silicon/carbon anode. Soon the range of the EVs will increase by %25 without big changes. This will be the final nail on the coffin of internal combustion engines. After this probably solid-state batteries will become available by the end of this decade. We choose the right partner for the job. Mercedes also holds shares of Farasis. We can start production with existing lithium-ion batteries and switch to this without problems.

 

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Yes, there is. It is a new lithium-silicon/carbon chemistry. It is very similar to lithium-ion batteries. Graphite anode is replaced by a silicon/carbon anode. Soon the range of the EVs will increase by %25 without big changes. This will be the final nail on the coffin of internal combustion engines. After this probably solid-state batteries will become available by the end of this decade. We choose the right partner for the job. Mercedes also holds shares of Farasis. We can start production with existing lithium-ion batteries and switch to this without problems.

This battery tech is not yet employed in production cars as far as I can tell. There remains some risk to its viability I guess. The next one down is the 260 Wh/kg Aluminum doped battery that Tesla is using. Aspilsan's NMC battery has 220 Wh/kg and 5-11C discharge rate and Aspilsan is not paying any license fee AFAIK. Farasis tech can give the good start TOGG needs in the medium term enabling a head to head competition against established car makers.
 

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There is no risk. It is simply existing Li-Ion tech with a different anode chemistry/material. Current Li-Ion battery factories can produce those batteries in mass in a year or two. That is what makes this so valuable. Other battery research like solid-state batteries needs a lot of time until they become mass-produced industrial products. The first serially produced TOGG car will leave the serial production line by the end of 2022 with the current Farasis Li-Ion battery which is similar in energy density compared to Tesla(we are mounting a smaller battery pack compared to Tesla hence the lower range on the pro side it will be far cheaper)

Turkiye is a rather big player in automotive production. Farasis/TOGG joint venture SIRO will grow to supply battery packs to a big portion of Turkish EV and energy storage needs other than TOGG cars.

 
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The Netherlands has a far better and more modern electricity infrastructure, and even in the Netherlands the electric cars are causing for daily errors in the electricity net.
No such thing happening in the Netherlands.
 

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Well regardless of what you may think if you want the EV to sell, you need to lower the price, even make small ones for around 30-35k Euro.
 
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