Stellantis’ New Solid-State Battery Might Break the Range Game
Stellantis just validated a battery that could make charging stops history
Stellantis Solid-State Battery – Key Points
- The Factorial/Stellantis Solid-state battery passes internal validation, moves to pre-production stage
- Promises up to 50 % more range and ultra-fast 10-minute charge times
- Coming to multi-brand platforms (Jeep, Dodge, Peugeot, more) before 2028
I’ll be honest: when legacy giants start tossing around “game-changing tech,” I usually reach for the salt shaker. But this time Stellantis, yes, the 14-brand mega-group that owns everything from Ram trucks to Maserati, might actually have the secret sauce.
A few days ago, the company quietly dropped a bombshell press note: its in-house solid-state battery pack has cleared the brutal validation gauntlet and is officially “production-ready.” Why does that matter? Think lithium-ion on creatine.
Solid electrolytes replace the flammable goop inside today’s cells, so you get denser energy storage, far less fire risk, and freak-show charging speeds. Stellantis claims a 50 percent jump in range versus its current packs and a 10-to-80 % top-up in basically one coffee break—about ten minutes on a 350-kW charger.
Engineers at the Mirafiori test lab apparently cycled prototypes to 1,000 full charges with virtually zero capacity loss. Translation: your Jeep Recon could go from Boston to D.C. for a decade without noticeable fade. The group is already tweaking platform code names—STLA Medium, STLA Large—to bolt these packs underneath.
Don’t confuse “validated” with “in dealerships tomorrow,” though. Stellantis still has to build a dedicated pilot line in the brand-new Termoli Gigafactory. The automaker says first customer cars should land “before the end of the decade,” but sources whisper late 2027 for Europe, early 2028 for North America. That’s ages in TikTok years, yet ahead of Toyota’s oft-delayed solid-state roll-out and neck-and-neck with QuantumScape’s VW deal.
If these claims hold, every EV-range anxiety meme might be toast. Imagine a Dodge Charger Daytona that hammers out 450 miles, drifts for Instagram, then slurps electrons quicker than you can order drive-thru fries. Sounds like the future we were promised, right?
Interesting Stats / Nuggets
- Stellantis targets cell energy density of 450 Wh/kg (Model Y packs sit around 260).
- Solid-state global market could hit $100 billion by 2032, per BloombergNEF.
- Group sold 1.1 million EVs in 2024, aiming for 100 % European EV sales by 2030.
