If True, QuantumScape Has Made the Biggest Leap in Batteries Since the Debut of Lithium-Ion

But most battery researchers don’t believe it

Steve LeVine
The Mobilist
Published in
11 min readFeb 2, 2021

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QuantumScape’s breakthrough separator. Photo courtesy of QuantumScape

On its first day of trading in November, shares of QuantumScape, a lithium-metal battery startup, surged by 57% in price. Then 10 days later, the price doubled, and less than two weeks after that, it was up another 72% — a total…

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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.