Thread for new battery breakthrough PR releases

Oh ho ho, what a surprise

The moto with the Donut supercap like battery has been delayed.

They should have given some cells to Mooch or Pajda IMO. I am so tempted to email them and ask nicely to do so.

Even if the battery pack is delayed, if they managed to get testing results anywhere near the real deal, they'd get some huge investments.
 
Oh ho ho, what a surprise

The moto with the Donut supercap like battery has been delayed.

They should have given some cells to Mooch or Pajda IMO. I am so tempted to email them and ask nicely to do so.

Even if the battery pack is delayed, if they managed to get testing results anywhere near the real deal, they'd get some huge investments.
Yup, but since they don't have anything they've resorted to cold calling small investors.
 
My finger did hover over the "reserve" button for the Verge for a while but I figured I'd rather let other people take the gamble first.
Yup, but since they don't have anything they've resorted to cold calling small investors.
I personally want to believe that Donut actually has a proper super cap like battery with the specs that they stated, but has production issues.

Like, if I was in their place and had a legit test, I'd probably have a battery reviewer on speed dial xD.
 
German "Geladen" battery podcast also has an episode about the latest Donut reddit leaks:

This guy: Sann, Joachim makes some speculations about how the battery could be constructed. He thinks possibly a natrium carbon anode and something organic (chinons) on the cathode. Which would mean a lower cell voltage, and explain the bipolar design they have in their promo material. He is cautiously optimistic that it could be real, but of course it remains mostly speculation. I hope I got that right, just recalling from memory, because I've watched the video yesterday and have no time to check right now.

They also think that it's actually a German screen printing company behind the scenes, that has developed a process to be able to print layers that can then be stacked into those solid state cells. And they speculate that such a procedure could make a completely different current conductor layout possible, which could explain some of the extraordinary specs the battery allegedly has. Apparently the company already has multiple years of experience in printing electronics, but in the photovoltaics market.
 
German "Geladen" battery podcast also has an episode about the latest Donut reddit leaks:

This guy: Sann, Joachim makes some speculations about how the battery could be constructed. He thinks possibly a natrium carbon anode and something organic (chinons) on the cathode. Which would mean a lower cell voltage, and explain the bipolar design they have in their promo material. He is cautiously optimistic that it could be real, but of course it remains mostly speculation. I hope I got that right, just recalling from memory, because I've watched the video yesterday and have no time to check right now.

They also think that it's actually a German screen printing company behind the scenes, that has developed a process to be able to print layers that can then be stacked into those solid state cells. And they speculate that such a procedure could make a completely different current conductor layout possible, which could explain some of the extraordinary specs the battery allegedly has. Apparently the company already has multiple years of experience in printing electronics, but in the photovoltaics market.
Huh, since when can sodium carbonate be used as an anode (natrium carbon)?

I hope they meant a carbon coated/carbon crosslinked sodium metal anode lmao.

The rest is possible, but greatly limits maximum energy density to around the numbers specified by Donut with high packaging density.
 
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