Industry experts who met with CT Coatings representatives doubted their technical skills. Julian Zanau from the Fraunhofer Research Institute recalled concerns following discussions with company officials.
“The first impression I got was that these people have no idea how a battery actually works. They were talking about no rare earth metals in their batteries and therefore no lithium, and to any chemist lithium has nothing to do with rare earth minerals.”
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Wild. Did they really think they could just hype this up and release something like this and not get found out?
It’s worked for their channel so far.
Except they’ve misled investors, and that will get them into deep shit.
Because fuck consumers Mislead consumers, FTC sleeps Mislead investors…
I’m shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED!
That’s the electricity in action.
Not by this thing, you’re not.
I’m surprised like the people who Trump fucked over when they voted for him for the second time
Third time for a lot of them.
I’m not surprised, but I am disappointed
I’ve heard it all about miracle battery tech. None of it ever works
Dang, was just seeing a bunch of YT vids popping up about this, how it was going to be big if true.
If they are really a fraud, how did they think they wouldn’t get caught??
They didn’t need to keep it secret forever, just long enough to grab more money.
If they need to advertise to promote their product, its trash
If you find out about something through YouTube ad, that’s all the proof you need that it’s a scam
Fake it til you make it
That doesn’t work for products
Does this mean the technology is impossible at current then? Or just that the company didn’t deliver?
There are several companies making great leaps right now. It is still far from commercially viable yet.
Which is why it seemed so far fetched for Donut to claim they had this battery without anyone knowing they were working on it. It was immediately suspicious.
It is still far from commercially viable yet.
Solid-state sodium is still in the laboratory stage. People assumed Donut was claiming to have developed a solid-state sodium battery due to their “no lithium” statement, but they never specifically claimed they were using sodium.
All solid-state lithium is a bit further along. Korea has pilot plants producing full-sized EV batteries that are being used for testing before they do the final scale up to production. Chinese manufacturers are also basically at the same stage. Those will likely be available in production EVs by 2030.
Just this company that didn’t deliver. There’s still a lot of other companies doing research for solid state battery
Who will all have a harder time finding investor money and will meet with more skepticism as development proceeds.
Like all other aspects of our greedy scam culture, the possibility of this new battery chemistry and some of the remaining social trust has been monetized and traded for cash to line somebody’s pockets.
You can buy a solid state battery right now on Digikey for 5 bucks. Lithium-ceramic. They suck ass. But cool tech.
Well we all had high hopes, but if something looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Of course it is. If you had the technology to create a revolutionary battery, you wouldn’t waste time with the motorcycle business.
Whaaat, who had thought about THAT. /s
Dammit
Well, prior to this, Donut lost most of their host for the YT channel. I’m guessing they saw the writing on the wall and left.
What? Donut Lab is a Finnish company. Donut Media is a YouTube channel company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donut_Lab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donut_Media
Is this a bot that just chimes in about Donut Media just because it has the word Donut in the headline?
