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VW One-Ups Tesla With a Revolutionary Battery Breakthrough

2020-09-03 13:44:38, Steve LeVine, Medium

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/Computers & Electronics
/Autos & Vehicles

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1149

Words/Sentence:
21

Reading Time:
7.66 min

Reading Quality:
Adept

Readability:
13th to 15th

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VW has verified the breakthrough, though Singh stressed that QuantumScape's scientists have work remaining: QuantumScape must scale up a laboratory-based cell into a multiple-layer battery, and much could go wrong on the way.

But if the claims pan out, the commercial consequences could be substantial, instantly catapulting both VW and QuantumScape into a huge competitive lead in the hotly contested battery and EV industries.

Now, in a colossal claim, QuantumScape, a 10-year-old San Jose, California, startup backed by Bill Gates, said in an interview that it has resolved lithium's problems, and that VW, the giant German automaker, expects to have cars using pure metallic lithium in their batteries on the road by 2025.

Pure lithium has remained the Holy Grail – the presumed best consumer battery possible using currently known principles and technology, but always out of reach since no one could figure out how to actually deploy the metal without the risk of fire.

After 10 years in stealth mode, QuantumScape becomes the first U.S. battery company to go public in a decadeA worker assembles one of Volkswagen's ID.3 electric cars at their factory in Zwickau, Germany, on July 31, 2020.

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