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Re:Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for elect... by Animats on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:42PM (#17963184)
Most battery announcements are bogus, but this one might be real. A123 Systems, the developer of lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, is involved. They put in $20 million as a Series A.[1] If you have a Crunchbase account, you can see more of the terms for this round.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/solid-power-series-...

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Re:Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for elect... by gnusci on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:06PM (#17964212)
I want to believe but if you do a little search you will see this kind of "battery breakthrough" once a month.
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Re:Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for elect... by NegativeLatency on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @05:48PM (#17963686)
Investment doesn't mean they have a viable product though.

See also Theranos, Clinkle, Yo.

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Re:Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for elect... by cglace on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:01PM (#17964174)
His point was that domain experts invested in this company. What domain experts invested in Thearanos?
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Re:Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for elect... by ksec on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:32AM (#17966265)
Goof point, But I think this barely means it has potential, or possibly commerciality, it still doesn't mean guarantee of success.
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Re:Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for elect... by olliej on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @06:02PM (#17963798)
Cuil, magic leap, ... (never forget cuil)
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Re:Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for elect... by adtac on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @09:31PM (#17964914)
Ah I remember going on cuil back then. Just read up on why they shut down and this is appalling: (from Wikipedia)

>... on the morning of September 17, 2010 "employees were told about Cuil's demise [...] and the servers were taken offline five hours later." Laid-off employees were told they would not be paid.

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Re:Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for elect... by nielsbot on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @06:04PM (#17963810)
Color
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