The Battery Revolution Is Finally Here
“Electric vehicles are advancing at an incredible pace, but we’re very much still in the early days. The Tesla Model S and X still use battery cell formats never imagined for use in cars. A lot is about to happen in the world of automotive batteries, though. We’re entering a new chapter of electrification, with new, ground-breaking technology already hitting the market. Most people just haven’t seen it yet. The push toward the next generation of batteries has two schools of thought: advance current technology to new heights, or change gears completely into a new type of battery cell. Factorial, QuantumScape and Group14 are all companies with a horse in this race, and each has ideas about achieving the state of the art. All of them have partnerships with major automakers, which means what they’re doing today may have a big impact on the cars you’ll buy soon.” (Inside Evs)
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- Space Solar secures letter of intent from Reykjavik Energy
- US Army works with tech companies to speed up weapons development
- Ex-Google CEO Schmidt urges US Army to replace tanks with drones
- How NATO wants to shape the future of war
- From AI to Musk’s brain chip, the F.D.A.’s device unit faces rapid change
- Antibody Drug Conjugates: A frontier in cancer treatment
- 25 km quantum network link between Dutch cities represents a key advance
- Chinese researchers built military-use AI model on Meta’s Llama
- NASA astronaut hospitalized after return from ISS
- Airdog’s founders are back with a precision-strike drone meant for modern warfare
- OpenAI reportedly planning to build its first AI chip in 2026
- SpiralWave’s pulsing plasma towers transform carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
- NYU researchers develop new real-time deepfake detection method
- An easier-to-use technique for storing data in DNA is inspired by our cells
- Accelerating 3D nanofabrication using a sensitive cationic photoresist
- A new paradigm for control of quantum emitters—modulating and encoding quantum photonic info on a single light stream
- New nanocatalyst targets tumors without oxygen
- New method successfully recycles carbon fiber composite into reusable materials
- Ion engines could take us to the solar gravitational lens in less than 13 years, suggests paper
- Cracking the code: Researchers unlock a ‘new synthetic frontier’ for quantum dots
- Cool journey to the center of the Earth: Researchers build superconducting cryomodule prototype
- New solvent-free 3D printing material could enable biodegradable implants
- Implantable microparticles can deliver two cancer therapies at once
- Researcher grows biological tissue in the lab using lasers to produce microfilaments
- Engineered bacterial protein offers efficient rare earth metal separation
- Scientists create a molecular switch that can control cell division on demand outside of a living system
- Using multimode propulsion for more efficient trips in space
- New gold nanorod technology can fry bacteria to sterilize implants
- Redoxblox raises $31M to commercialize its energy storage ‘booster’
- Waymo, a self-driving car technology company, is now valued at a staggering $45B
- Humanoid robot startup Agility nears deal to raise $150M
- Spanish startup Inbrain raises $50M for brain device
- Electric aircraft startup Beta raises $318M in new round
- $900M+ Series A investment into nuclear startup Pacific Fusion
- Archon emerges from stealth with $20M and ‘antibody cages’ to power up drug development
- Pathos AI, clinical-stage biotechnology company, closes $62M Series C funding
- Axonis Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel neuromedicines, raises $115M in Series A financing
- SynOx Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing a novel treatment for CSF-1 related and macrophage-driven disorders, raises additional funding in Series B round; total to $92M
- GlycoMimetics, a biotechnology company discovering and developing glycobiology-based therapies for cancers, to acquire Crescent Biopharma
- Leal Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing novel therapeutics for patients with disorders of the central nervous system (CNS), raises $45M financing
- Moondream raises $4.5M to prove that smaller AI models can still pack a punch
- Starget Pharma receives $5.1M investment from Cancer Focus Fund
- Kivu Bioscience, a biotech company developing antibody-drug conjugates raises $92M in Series A funding
- Vensica Medical, a urology therapeutics company, raises $11M in funding
- ARX Robotics in talks to raise Series A as it sets out to build Europe’s ‘next defence prime’
- Paterna BioSciences, a biotechnology company dedicated to solving male infertility, raises $6M seed funding
- Musk’s xAI to raise capital at $40B valuation
- Hydrogen-powered electric business aircraft startup Beyond Aero raised a $20M Series A
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