Donut Lab's 'solid-state' battery exposed as regular li-ion in investigation
76 points by virgildotcodes
by tencentshill
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It tarnishes my impression of Finland as well. I assumed scams like this didn't happen very much. I still assume justice will be served swiftly and they won't be able to worm out of it.
by ChiperSoft
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Did they think nobody would notice? At some point somebody was bound to rip on open, or at least stick it in a CT scanner
by eunos
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After Northvolt now this. EU can't take a break
by tomkarho
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Guess Donut went with "fake it till you make it" business strategy but somewhere along the way forgot the "make it" part.
by InTheArena
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Ignore eletrek's self-serving post, go watch the youtube video.
I've been waiting for more people to realize that their battery wasn't real, its specs were so outlandishly good they sounded completely impossible.
by skullone
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The early videos of their lab results looked a big enough scam that I couldn't believe people were buying the hype.
by fgclue
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Well that sucks.
by tmikaeld
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Did someone actually pry a production cell open or is it more hearsay?
by nom
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no no, you see, that's exactly how our super secret chemistry solid state battery would measure! look at it, the curves aren't even similar, very different kink due to secret anode material that's definitely not graphite
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