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Verge claims to have produced the first production bike with the Donut battery and are sending it to a customer:

18kWh

Fast charge demo in the Verge Motorcycle, 9-80% in 12 minutes:

Battery passed the high C rate charge test, at 5C and 11C, without active cooling: https://pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev/VTT_CR_00092_26.pdf

VTT labs have announced they tested the Donut battery. This is a real testing company so things are looking more realistic: https://www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-ideas/donut-lab-commissioned-vtt-carry-out-battery-measurements-support-its-product

New IDonutbelieve video, says basically nothing but claims 3rd party results in 3 days. I did a bit more digging and found that Donut partner Cova is partnered with an actual established trucking company Ahola https://www.aholagroup.com/ Presumably they have at least done some testing of the...

Why not both?

Not really, even a prototype that meets all the claimed specs would be close to a miracle and has as of yet been impossible.

Another Ziroth video on Donut Labs, mostly covering what has already been discussed but also with some new input from other sources. He remains skeptical, but contrary to the thumbnail no truth is revealed.

It could be real, or it could be a very odd and poorly conceived "marketing campaign" which will be exposed fairly quickly, as soon as they ship a bike with the claimed battery and it gets dissected. I doubt any serious investors or companies would invest money in Donut without seeing proof of...

Another battery to keep an eye on, supposedly in vehicles this year at 600Wh/kg from Chery motors. Unlike Donut they aren't making any extreme cycle life claims and say costs will still be higher than conventional for now but that energy density is insane if real...

An older article from the same site, from 2 years ago, sure sounds like Nordic Nano tech is what Donut is using: "Next year, Nordic Nano Group, a Finnish company that manufactures a new kind of battery technology, will start its test production in Imatra. The company's main products are solar...

Mention of another company working with them, Corvus, building trailers with motors and batteries.

Munro interview with Verge:

Some real investigative journalism adds some color as to how this might be possible:

I don't know if I'll be more surprised if it's real or if it's the most pointless scam ever created. Still...

There is this statement: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/858514/is-this-the-worlds-first-solid-state-battery

Yes, I said "some of the same people", so far that seems to equal *one* person. Again, they are different companies operating in different countries, Verge has operations in multiple countries. So our choices are multiple people in multiple companies in multiple countries are all in on it...

I wasn't fooled for even a second, spent a lot of time calling out that BS from the beginning.

https://www.wattelectricvehicles.com/about/people Neil Yates Bob Mustard Dr Paul Faithfull Mark Thorogood