Game changing electric car battery breakthrough shows China has won the EV battle: 2025 MG to feature solid state batteries years ahead of Toyota and Nissan

It’s over, the Chinese car makers have won the electric car race.

MG’s parent company SAIC has claimed it will start fitting solid state batteries to its vehicle from next year.

SAIC’s Vice President of Passenger Cars Yu Jingmin made the announcement at the Chengdu motor show, according to Autocar.

Solid state batteries are often touted as being the silver bullet to mass electric car adoption.

The futuristic batteries are smaller, lighter, faster charging, more energy dense and less prone to fire than current lithium-ion cells and can deliver a claimed driving range of more than 1000km.

This is achieved by using a solid electrolyte instead of a liquid or gel used in conventional units.

Chinese brand GWM claimed to have developed a micro solid state battery earlier this year, but it still needed to be scaled up.

Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagen have been pressing hard to develop solid state batteries first, too.

MG wouldn’t reveal which car would be fitted with the new tech. A larger SUV would benefit the most from the new batteries, but so would a sports car such as the coming Cyber GTS where the high cost of the batteries won’t be such an issue.

MG’s announcement comes years ahead of rivals. Its parent company SAIC rolled out a semi-solid state batter in its IM Motors L6 sedan — however the latest update is an even bigger breakthrough.

Toyota has previously said to look out for 2027 for the first application of solid state batteries in a production vehicle, while Nissan is targeting 2028.

These batteries are likely to be the catalyst for an electric off-road 4WD, ute and next-generation GT-R supercar.

Volkswagen is also going large on solid state batteries. It has teamed up with US company PowerCo to buy enough batteries to potentially fit to one million vehicles.

VW hasn’t put a time on when to expect the hi-tech batteries in its vehicles.