The Donut Story Continues.

[The Weatherman]

Seems like the prove of this technology may not be far off.

 

[ScooterAsheville]

We will know one way or another Monday, when the first results video drops. The fact I took from this video was that the Finnish national lab is testing the battery. That lab has confirmed they are testing.

There was a LOT of hate out there. Maybe it's still a scam. Not much longer to find out, eh? If Donut Labs is legit (still TBD), there's gonna be a lot of egg-on-face to go around.

https://www.vttresearch.com/en/news...-out-battery-measurements-support-its-product

PS: I think the Donut Lab CEO foreshadowed the next skeptical narrative. "OK, you delivered test results. But now can you scale it profitably?". And it's a fair question to ask. I hope they address that in the video series.

 

[crownmountain]

Really looking forward to this series. Actually letting the nay sayers move first was brilliant when/if the battery proves out. Lots will be watching.

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

Yeah I do hope it's comes to market soon

 

[Electroliner]

If this tech is legit and there is a roadmap for SLATE to integrate Donut packs into their battery modules, I would hold off on buying a Slate. If SLATE plans an upgrade to existing vehicles in the future, I have no reason not to order a SLATE today.

 

[NowThatsDamp]

Guys this is very transparently a scam for a long list of obvious reasons. The lab results will come back and they will validate some but not all of their big claims. Building one off solid state batteries is not hard, labs have been doing it for decades. That doesn't prove anything. They will blast the wins and just memory hole the promises that were not validated. They will take a bunch of preorders. They will run with the money. People will forget about it. Don't be one of the people that pre-orders and move on with your life.

 

[KevinRS]

Even if everything they claim was true, and they could scale it to production profitably, and cheap for the buyer/vehicle manufacturer, we are talking several years at least before it would make it into full scale full sized production vehicles, and it might be several years after that before they got production to a level where they would be offering a contract for batteries to Slate. There is a lot that goes into tooling up a factory to make a whole new type of battery at scale.

 

[bartflossom]

IF this turns out mostly true, I'm hoping they decide to make their fortune by licensing it to the big battery manufacturers because then it would be available much earlier. But who knows. Monday is going to be interesting

 

[atx_ev]

Seems like the prove of this technology may not be far off.

that sounds like BS. If it works, then just show it.

 

[The Weatherman]

that sounds like BS. If it works, then just show it.

We’ll see.

That testing lab is a government run facility that has a very high reputation in the field of testing so I’m confident we can trust their evaluation.

We’ll see.

 

[bartflossom]

Interesting timeline of everything related to donutlabs

 

[bartflossom]

Going live in 5 minutes!

 

[E90400K]

Even if everything they claim was true, and they could scale it to production profitably, and cheap for the buyer/vehicle manufacturer, we are talking several years at least before it would make it into full scale full sized production vehicles, and it might be several years after that before they got production to a level where they would be offering a contract for batteries to Slate. There is a lot that goes into tooling up a factory to make a whole new type of battery at scale.

And new kinds of machinery that would be patented or patent filed for and discussed in the various manufacturing/machinery trade periodicals (that I no longer read). There is no supporting sub-story here for proof of claims, IMO.

 

[bartflossom]

 

[The Weatherman]

Looking more and more likely that some folks may have to eat their words. I hope that turns out to be true.

The better this turns out the better for those of us that are all in on EV’s.