ここは未だステルスモードです。スタンフォード大発ベンチャーで、
KPCBやコーシュラが投資しているようです。ARPA-Eを受けてい
ます。
QuantumScape - http://www.quantumscape.com/
- A secretive start-up company in Silicon Valley (where it's popular to be a secretive start-up) focusing on electric vehicle batteries. The batteries are supposed to have the energy density of gasoline1 which would be amazing if possible. The company’s technology is licensed from Stanford University, and uses a new method for stacking trace amounts of materials together, which can lead to high energy and power densities, and also higher cycle life than standard lithium ion batteries. Khosla Ventures lists QuantumScape on its website as an investment.
The Stanford research group this was licensed from got written up by the Dept of Energy2 saying this:-
Researchers at Stanford University seek to develop an “All-Electron Battery” that would enable a completely new class of electrical energy storage devices for electric vehicles. The All-Electron Battery has the potential to provide ultra-high energy and power densities, while enabling extremely high cycle life. This novel battery stores energy by moving electrons, rather than ions, and uses electron/hole redox instead of capacitive polarization of a double-layer. This technology uses a novel architecture that has potential for very high energy density because it decouples the two functions of capacitors: charge separation and breakdown strength. If successful, this project will develop a completely new paradigm in energy storage for electric vehicles that could revolutionize the electric vehicle industry.
Quantum Scape is a startup that licensed technology from Stanford University to build technology from something called an all-electron battery. The ARPA-E site describes it as “a completely new class of electrical energy storage devices for electric vehicles that has the potential to provide ultra-high energy and power densities, while enabling extremely high cycle life.” Quantum Scape is still in stealth mode.