QuantumScape Brushes Off Solid-State Battery Skeptics
The US startup QuantumScape is moving ahead with plans to manufacture a solid-state battery with a self-forming lithium-metal anode.
The US startup QuantumScape is moving ahead with plans to manufacture a solid-state battery with a self-forming lithium-metal anode.
It’s been a long nine years, but QuantumScape’s new solid state battery for EVs just passed a major milestone on the way to commercialization.
We’ve been writing about QuantumScape in what seems like forever. It seems our first mention of the company was on the 1st of January in 2015 right after Volkswagen jumped into bed with the mysterious battery startup. I then put it on my list of 43 battery storage companies to … [continued]
Solid-state batteries from Solid Power and QuantumScape are finding their way to various automakers for pre-production testing .
Electric vehicles are supposed to be the biggest market for new solid-state battery technology, but stationary energy storage is suddenly in the running, too.
QuantumScape, which is developing solid-state lithium-metal batteries for electric vehicles, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Volkswagen Group of America to pick the location of the two companies’ joint-venture solid-state battery pilot-line facility by the end of this year. Both companies are eyeing Salzgitter, Germany, for … [continued]
Volkswagen’s Power Day had lots of technical information available, none more important than its promise to introduce V2G technology to its electric cars beginning next year.
A couple weeks ago, Volkswagen and Quantumscape claimed to have solved a key problem in the development of solid state batteries. Solid state batteries would give great benefits to both the automotive world and other industries, but have so far been frustrated by the inability to come up with a … [continued]
QuantumScape is one of the world’s leading solid state battery companies, and it went public on November 27th (NYSE: QS). The company worked in “stealth mode” for a long time, and received considerable investment by some of the world’s most established cleantech investors, among them Capricorn Investment Group, Breakthrough Enegy Ventures, and notably from a car manufacturer, Volkswagen. We spoke to Quantum Scape CEO and Founder Jagdeep Singh.
Suddenly, news reports about solid state batteries are everywhere, which surely suggests progress is being made toward incorporating them into production cars in the near future.