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Comment by p1mrx

5 days ago

If this is true, it's possible that the technology is from Nordic Nano. That would at least explain how a motor/software company could pull a battery out of thin air:

https://www.donutlab.com/nordic-nano-investment/

Their chief scientist is working on solar-powered hydrogen production, which seems fairly unrelated to solid state batteries:

https://www.nordicnano.co/chief-scientist-bela-bhuskute-will...

Though TiO2 nanoparticles appear to be relevant to battery research in general:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaem.3c02304

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dm808  5 days ago

Yes, it is from Nordic Nano.

It is nanoprinted and trivially scalable. Free of lithium, cadmium, lead, and cobalt. Uses abundant raw materials free from geopolitical constraints. https://yle.fi/a/74-20118784

Factory in Finland, started around Q3/2025. https://yle.fi/a/74-20180376

Verge Motorcycles bike with the new battery at CES, apparently at West Hall 5658. Video: https://youtu.be/vmsxYznW9Fs

Donut Lab booth here: https://www.ces.tech/events/ces-unveiled-las-vegas/exhibitor...

  • dust42  5 days ago

    > It is nanoprinted and trivially scalable.

    Nanoprinted snakeoil - infinitely scalable. Good enough to grab 3M€ public grants and some more from gullible private investors.

    Honestly, if they had the tiniest proof of their claims (400Wh/kg, 5min 0-100%, operating temp -30°C to 100°C, no Li/Co/Mn and somebody looking at the production and taking the output to the test) they would be absolutely drowned in money to the point that sama would become jealous.

    > Factory in Finland, started around Q3/2025. https://yle.fi/a/74-20180376

    That is only a picture of a factory building. They are 100% greenwash grant grabbers with no real substance. There are plenty of these people in Europe. The motorcycle is likely in China designed and produced.

    If grant grabbing is what you'd consider a fulfilling life, then come to Europe - it will be an El Dorado for you.

  • Animats  2 days ago

    The Nordic Nano connection is strange. Here's their web site.[1] They claim to make solar panel coatings, solid state batteries, and do something involving hydrogen. This is all done from a little metal building in a small town on the east coast of Finland near the Russian border. There's no detail on any of this technology.

    One Youtuber thinks this is a capacitor, not a battery. But that would require a dielectric orders of magnitude better than anything known.

    Donut won't talk about either the chemistry or the manufacturing. The only thing they showed at CES was one pouch cell hooked up to a charger at 4.2V, drawing current. Everything else was a 3D printed mockup or an existing electric motorcycle.

    [1] https://www.nordicnano.co/

  • anttisalmela  5 days ago

    > The company aims to have the pre-production equipment needed to manufacture prototypes operational by the end of this (2025) year. Actual production is scheduled to begin in late summer 2026.

    Well, maybe there's enough prototype production for motor cycles.