An Ultra-Secret Battery Startup Hints That It’s Blown Past Tesla — But Won’t Show the Goods

Experts question the claim by QuantumScape, backed by $500 million from Bill Gates, Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and VW

Steve LeVine
Marker
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15 min readSep 21, 2020

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Early this month, QuantumScape, an ultra-secretive, $4.3 billion battery startup, startled the…

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Steve LeVine
Marker
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Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.