When announcing a solid-state battery partnership, Toyota displayed the sand-like electrolyte substance in a glass vessel that looks — apologies in advance — exactly like a butt plug., which is otherwise unremarkable save for its promise that by the year 2027, Toyota says it'll market next-generation batteries that'll allow its electric vehicles to travel a whopping 900 miles on a single charge.
Interestingly enough, a quick reverse image search revealed that such, er, conical containers seem to be pretty common when storing powdery chemical compounds like the solid-state secret sauce used in Toyota's electrolyte — Chemical compounds displayed inside curiously shaped containers, as produced by the Toray chemical company. Image via Toray Industries/screenshot.— that these containers are called "pear-shaped flasks" or "seed bottles," which are indeed often seen on e-commerce websites out of China and Japan.
With that context, it seems like the butt plug of it all may only have occurred to Americans — or perhaps, if we're in the business of conjecture, that the conical flared-based
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