Comment by cm2012
5 days ago
If true, would have massive geopolitical implications.
1) China has gone all in on batteries. A competitor from Finland would be shocking. Scale is the real issue.
2) Luckily Finland hates Russia so this probably can't be used for Russian drones
Nah.
Being able to scale out is far more important than the underlying tech ultimately. I'd expect that China would pretty quickly copy this if it proves out and would likely start outstripping them.
I don't really see why Finland would be unable to scale production though? Expensive workforce? Surely that could be worked around, Sweden still produces semis and have similarly costly workforce. What other impediments do they even face?
because building things in Europe requires complying with a myriad laws and regulations.
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I hope the tech works as advertısed because Finland is screwed due to the state of affairs with Russia. Not just militarily but economically, they have some of the worst unemployment rates in EU now and they are trying to figure out new economy without reliance on the trade with Russia, especially on the border regions.
Eh. There are at least a half dozen other companies with working solid state batteries outside China like Rimac in Estonia (with ProLogium in Taiwan and Mitsubishi), Solid Power in Colorado (with Samsung SDI) and QuantumScape in California (with VW's PowerCo SE).
Mass manufacturing them is the big issue.
Rimac in Croatia!
My mistake! You're absolutely right. Rimac is in Croatia.
no one hates Kyrgyzstan though ;)
https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D5622AQHRq_efww0ZsQ/feedsh...
regardless, batteries with 10% more wh/kg @ 500% the cost would be used for preciously few things, if any. after a few years of war, Russia had the presence of mind to revert to "quantity has a quality all its own" doctrine.