RE:Volkswagen Battery Plant ProposalVolkswagon's PowerCo placing some partnership monies to work with VoltaXplore would be nice Dumont; and yet, I expect that is a bridge too far.
I wouldn't assume anything.
I just don't expect PowerCo stakeholders would want to fund Soroush Nazarpour's graphene-silicon battery anode materials wishes, so to speak.
I do recall another cathode chemisties developer and manufacturer, Belgium's Umicore, being selected by Volkswagon's PowerCo though.
When it comes to silicon anode materials, there are other companies which have, in some way, seemed to have aligned themselves with Hanwha Chemicals or "Hanwha Group" and Hanwha's partner Samsung in the silicon anode battery materials space, case in point Group 14 Technologies, A123 and even Sila Nanotechnologies, a company which is also joining Group 14 Technologies in setting up it's either 100% silicon based and/or silicon aditive comprised battery anode materials manufacturig facility in Moses Lake, Washington.
For many reasons, I kind of like Hanwha and it's partner Samsung for NanoXplore and VoltaXplore; and yet, it's not what I kind of like which matters Dumont.
I believe Mr. Soroush Nazarpour & Co made it clear that VolaXplore's initial 2GWh graphene enhanced battery cells manufacturig facility would be located within Quebec and that the NanoXplore 100 tpa to 200tpa SiG "BAM" manufacturing facility would likely be co-located with one of the company's manufacturing facilities, likely in Quebec or perhaps Ontario.
Any-hoo that SiG anode battery material manufacturing facility isn't going to happen until the second half of 2023.
and if the requisite $500 Million in capital is secured and the "GO" directive is given by by Martinrea and NanoXplore representatives, the battery cells manufacturing facility construction likely wouldn't start any sooner than 2024 and wouldn't be completed until some time in 2026.