After a Decade of Secrecy, QuantumScape Has Become a Transparency Evangelist

A vigilance against people making claims with ‘zero data’

Steve LeVine
The Mobilist
Published in
5 min readFeb 23, 2021

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QuantumScape CEO Jagdeep Singh. Photo: Courtesy QuantumScape

For a decade, QuantumScape toiled away in secrecy in a gigantic space on the southern edge of Silicon Valley. But secrecy did not suggest obscurity: With its unusually rich $150 million in venture funding, QuantumScape had the rapt…

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Steve LeVine
The Mobilist

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