RE:VoltaExplore pause may be a blessing...s2000duck,
NanoXplore has the battery chemistry IP which allows for gaining today sloid state batetry chemistries performance without waiting fro solid state to become more so mainstream.
Solid state is bleeding expensive and there is a good series of reasons as to why companies such as Quantumscape and Solid Power, as examples, have not had their respective battery cells chemistries and proprietary battery cells IP included within mass production battery-electric vehicles powering battery packs.
"Real world performance testing and the necessary full and final certification of production methods, claimed full industrial scale manufacturing capacity output and sustained long term solid state chemistries comprising battery cells performance testing by or on behalf of automotive manufacturer customers/partners is still ongoing.
You have to remember that VoltaXplore was merely a downstream commercialization enabling vehicle having been leveraged to seek to monetize, by way of the proposed 2GWh capacity manufacturing facility and long term sales to customers/partners, NanoXplore battery cells chemistries intellectual properties and graphene enhanced battery cell components enabled battery cells or power cells.
What is stopping NanoXplore representatives from directly doing so in an expedited fashion with a partner willing to employ today NanoXplore's graphene enhanced silicon anode additive material within it's exclusive and co-branded and fully licensed line of graphene chemistries enhanced power cells; thus allowing such a battery cells manufacturing partner the ability to introduce battery cells or power cells providing solid state battery chemistries performance attributes today and also solid state battery cells tomorrow.
You need to remember that NanoXplore graphene enhanced battery materials are chemistry agnostic and battery cells form factor agnostic as well.
NanoXplore has "drop in solutions" both applicable to existing lithium-ion battery chemistries powered battery cells and also drop in solutions for advanced solid state battery chemistries powered battery cells of any existing form factor.
The VoltaXplore 2GWh capacity manufacturing facility project may very well be burned toast - thankfully; and yet, NanoXplore representatives have the ability to monetize the underlying battery chemistries and process manufacturing IP by way of entered into fully licensed, co-marketing and co-branded joint venture agreements undertaken with battery cells manufacturers and their respective automotive manufacturing partners, eg. Samsung SDI, etc.
Why take on all the overhead capital financing and the operational costs of a 2 GWh capacity build when a company like Samsung SDI, for example, has the necesary facilities and 10 GWh capacity battery cells production lines galore to lend to a fully IP licensed (with the requisite initial upfront licensing ca$h payments to NanoXplore of course) joint venture commercialization partnership endeavor.
I had always advocated (yes, long ago and when NanoXplore began floating the idea of a 1 MWh capacity battery cells pilot plant scale graphene enhance battery cells manufacturing facility) for a fully licensed joint veture co-marketing and co- branding partnership model as being the most immediate, economically most efficient and superior avenue providing for the requisite downstream commercialization of NanoXplore battery cells chemistries and proprietary Graphene BlackTM" powder enhanced battery components products manufacturing process intellectual properties.
What's more, I had always said that the joint venture partnership vehicle should become a publicly listed equities issuer, the equity of which would in great part be distributed to NanoXplore equities investors.