developbc wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/business/electric-vehicle-batteries.html
as posted by u/magbaeach
Tesla effectively created the E.V. battery industry by proving that people would buy electric vehicles and forcing traditional carmakers to reckon with the technology, Mr. Berdichevsky said. “That’s what’s going to make the world go electric,” he said, “everyone competing to make a better electric car.”
Sila belongs to a group of start-ups that have developed materials that substantially improve the performance of existing battery designs, increasing range by 20 percent or more. Others include Group14 Technologies in Woodinville, Wash., near Seattle, which has backing from Porsche, and OneD Battery Sciences in Palo Alto, Calif.
All three have found ways to use silicon to store electricity inside batteries, rather than the graphite that is prevalent in existing designs. Silicon can hold much more energy per pound than graphite, allowing batteries to be lighter and cheaper and charge faster. Silicon would also ease the U.S. dependence on graphite refined in China.
Solid Power begins solid-state battery pilot before testing with Ford and BMW in late 2022 - Electrek
While timelines are always hard to predict, it appears that these battery manufactures have timelines that extend / align with when HPQ will be commercializing their plant (few years out in the future). With hope (or not depending on your point of view), we will not need to wait that long and HPQ, along with PYR's buy in and that of shareholders, will be bought out by a bigger fish in the interim.