TL;DR: QuantumScape confirmed that its new Cobra separator process is now in baseline production. It’s a major milestone in their push to bring solid-state batteries to market.
They said Cobra achieves 25× faster heat-treatment speeds compared to the older Raptor method and takes up significantly less equipment space. So yeah, it sounds pretty promising, tho.
This process is key to QS’s high-throughput, continuous-flow manufacturing strategy, which is meant to support large-scale production of their B1 sample cells and future versions, with better speed, efficiency, and scalability. But we’ll see how it ends up.
In other news, QuantumScape is paying for a few more weeks a settlement to investors for overstating the quality of their battery technology in 2021. So, if you got hit by this, it’s worth checking if you’re eligible for payment.
Anyways, do you think this finally puts QS on track for real commercial traction, or still too early to tell?
QuantumScape’s Cobra tech just hit baseline production—solid-state batteries getting real?
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