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Coreshell has a plan to slash the price of American-made batteries
Rather than trying to beat Chinese companies, Coreshell attempting an end run, swapping graphite for its specially coated silicon.
Those incentives, plus decades of industrial policy focused on controlled critical mineral supply chains, has left American and European automakers flat footed. By coating small beads of silicon with its proprietary material, Coreshell has found a way to stabilize it so it doesn’t degrade over the thousand-plus charge-discharge cycles a typical EV is expected to endure. The startup made its first 60 amp-hour sample batteries for automakers in December, and it has a four megawatt-hour production line up and running to supply demand for testing.
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