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Report: VW Group to decide how to proceed with Quantumscape solid state energy storage by July

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According to the report, Winterkorn said that the technology’s potential to boost the range of battery-powered vehicles is compelling and tests are progressing. Vanessa Wood, noted that he saw “ great potential ” in solid-state batteries. Other earlier patents relate to the electron battery. Batteries'

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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

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Actually delivering commercially viable 500-mile batteries will require exascale computing—i.e., Ab initio materials, design, performance, and manufacturing can initially be handled with petascale (1 x 10 15 op/s) computation, Weigand suggests. Tags: Batteries Power Generation Smart Grid Solar.