{"id":24119,"date":"2026-06-19T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/24119\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:54:08","slug":"stellantis-holds-9-5-stake-in-solid-state-battery-startup-factorial-filing-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/24119\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellantis holds 9.5% stake in solid state battery startup Factorial, filing shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Reuters;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Reuters\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"171\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2020-11\/62e21440-2fbd-11eb-95ff-5673fa3d2f9f.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Fri, June 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"650\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/reuters.com\/0eefcf087d1531dbf38abee53d4334bd.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE PHOTO: A logo on the exterior of a Stellantis office building in Poissy, near Paris, France, May 4, 2026. REUTERS\/Benoit Tessier\/File Photo<\/p>\n<p>MILAN, June 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Automaker Stellantis holds a 9.5% stake in U.S. \u200csolid-state battery startup Factorial Energy \u200cand might buy further shares in the future, \u200ba SEC filing showed.<\/p>\n<p>Solid-state batteries for electric vehicles are expected to be lighter, with better energy density than, traditional \u200clithium-ion batteries, and \u2060ensuring faster charging times. However manufacturers have so far struggled \u2060to produce them at scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Stellantis&#8217; overall stake in Factorial is valued around $126 \u200bmillion at \u200bcurrent stock \u200bprices.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Stellantis sees Factorial \u200cas an &#8220;attractive investment opportunity&#8221;, the filing showed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Franco Italian automaker first invested in Factorial in 2021, with a \u20ac75 million ($86 million) deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Stellantis said earlier \u200cthis month it had \u200bintegrated Factorial&#8217;s &#8216;FEST&#8217; solid-state battery \u200bcells into \u200ba development vehicle and launched \u200ca road-testing program to \u200bverify performance, \u200bsafety and reliability.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 According to the filing, Stellantis&#8217; Financial Services CEO Jon \u200bNelson \u200chas been elected to Factorial&#8217;s board.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = \u200b0.8728 euros)<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Giulio Piovaccari, editing \u200bby Gavin Jones)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, June 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM UTC FILE PHOTO: A logo on the exterior of a Stellantis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[15932,15935,103],"class_list":["post-24119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stellantis","tag-factorial","tag-solid-state-battery","tag-stellantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}