Comment on Donut Labs released VTT's independant test results!

• Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As someone in the industry, I unfortunately highly doubt that the battery is real, at least in the way that they say it is. Individually, all of the claimed specs are within the realm of possibility, but combining all of them in one cell that supposedly does not contain lithium and is cheap to produce? Extremely unlikely.

  What I suspect is that they have one or a few expensive laboratory-made cells that fulfill at least the performance claims so they can raise interest, but which are in no way possible to produce at a reasonable price point.

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  • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I just cant see how this scam is to work with buddy getting ahead if it is fake. We know what happened with Theranos, you never get away with defrauding billionaires or companies. With a technology like this once an OEM will most def test the battery before putting it into a commercial vehicle.

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    • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Depends on on what they’re trying to convince people of. I see a few options:

      1. They believe they are close to a breakthrough and just need a little bit more funding to get all the way there. I don’t see this as likely because then they wouldn’t have come out with such extraordinary claims straight out of the gate.

      2. They want to fool potential customers into buying their products. Also not likely for the same reason you said, no one is going to include a product into their production line without verifying things first.

      3. They want to fool investors into buying the company. This is what I think is going on, they want enough breadcrumbs so that people who want to come out to ahead of the big players (CATL, QuantumScape, Solid Power) will let their fear of missing out outweigh their skepticism will go all-in, then just cash out before anyone realizes it was a bluff.

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