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QuantumScape is on a mission to transform energy storage with solid-state lithium-metal battery technology.

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QuantumScape is on a mission to transform energy storage with solid-state lithium-metal battery technology. The company’s next-generation batteries are designed to enable greater energy density, faster charging, and enhanced safety to support the transition away from legacy energy sources toward a lower carbon future.

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["QuantumScape Achieves Major Milestone: Cobra Separator Process Enters Baseline Production\n\nJune 24, 2025\n\nQuantumScape Achieves Major Milestone: Cobra Separator Process Enters Baseline Production\n\nJune 24, 2025\n\nAchieves Key 2025 Goal, Bringing its Technology Closer to Commercialization\n\nSAN JOSE, Calif. — June 24, 2025 — QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE: QS), a global leader in next-generation solid-state lithium-metal battery technology, today announced a major milestone in the scale-up of its production capabilities: the successful integration of its advanced Cobra separator process into baseline cell production.\n\nCobra forms the foundation of QS’s high-throughput, continuous-flow separator production platform. Designed to enable faster, more energy-efficient production with a smaller equipment footprint compared to earlier processes, Cobra represents a step-change improvement in ceramic separator manufacturing. Compared to the prior-generation Raptor process, Cobra offers a ~25x improvement in heat treatment speed and occupies a fraction of the physical space per film start – key advantages in the design of a scalable gigafactory production line.\n\n“Our team has made impressive strides in advancing Cobra, a technology that exemplifies our progress in scaling solid-state battery production,” said Dr. Siva Sivaram, QS CEO. “By significantly improving throughput and shrinking the equipment footprint, Cobra gives us a powerful path forward for commercializing our next-generation battery technology.”\n\n“Cobra is a step-change innovation in ceramic processing, enabling a major improvement in productivity compared to Raptor — which was already a considerable advancement compared to the previous generation,” said Tim Holme, QS co-founder and CTO. “This advancement is central to bringing our high-performance solid-state battery platform to market at gigawatt scale.”\n\nThe Cobra platform replaces the company’s Raptor process, which was used for B0 cell production and delivered important gains in separator quality and process stability. With Cobra in place as the new baseline, QS will continue to improve its production speed, efficiency and scalability, laying the groundwork for higher-volume B1 sample production. These production metrics are expected to further improve as the company introduces future iterations of Cobra.","QuantumScape Begins Customer Shipments of Alpha-2 Prototypes, a Key Goal for 2024\n\nMarch 27, 2024\n\nQuantumScape Begins Customer Shipments of Alpha-2 Prototypes, a Key Goal for 2024\n\nMarch 27, 2024\n\nSAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE: QS), a leader in next-generation solid-state lithium-metal battery technology, today announced it started customer shipments of Alpha-2 prototype battery cells, fulfilling a goal for 2024.\n\nAlpha-2 prototypes are a significant milestone on the roadmap to deliver QSE-5, QuantumScape’s first planned commercial product. QuantumScape entered the automotive qualification process in December 2022 after shipping A0 prototypes to customers. Alpha-2 prototypes integrate many of the company’s significant component improvements made over the last year. The six-layer Alpha-2 prototype is more energy-dense than the earlier 24-layer A0 prototype. This is primarily due to higher-loading cathodes (i.e., packed with more active material) and more efficient packaging that optimizes the materials and space within the cell. The packaging improvements include tighter internal margins, thinner current collectors, and a slimmer design, all of which are integral to the final product.\n\nAs an intermediate step between the A0 and the QSE-5 B0 prototypes planned for later this year, Alpha-2 cells feature the main functionality of the QSE-5 and are an opportunity for customers to test key performance parameters and prototype-level reliability. While Alpha-2 prototypes are being tested in customer labs, QuantumScape is working to integrate those component-level improvements into the planned QSE-5 cells, which will consist of 24 layers and use electrolyte-separators produced using the faster Raptor equipment and process.\n\n“The Alpha-2 shipments represent an important milestone on our path to commercialization,” said Dr. Siva Sivaram, president and CEO of QuantumScape. “Customer feedback is the most critical input in the product development cycle as it provides insight into areas that need improvement and strengthens collaboration. The faster we can get new product iterations into customers’ hands, the faster we get to production. We are very encouraged by the initial Alpha-2 performance results and excited about the first QSE-5 cells we expect to manufacture later this year.”\n\n“The improvements in energy and power densities demonstrated by the Alpha-2 prototypes indicate that QSE-5 can push the boundaries of solid-state battery performance,” said Tim Holme, co-founder and CTO of QuantumScape. “We continue to advance our anode-free, solid-state battery in performance and maturity with methodical execution on our milestones.”\n\nThe company will continue to build and ship Alpha-2 prototypes to automotive customers over the coming months while focusing on reliability improvements and ramping up production. QuantumScape’s remaining key goals for 2024 include ramping up the Raptor production process, beginning low-volume QSE-5 prototype production, and preparing for high-volume production of its solid-state electrolyte-separator using the Cobra equipment and process, which is set to begin in 2025.","QuantumScape Releases Next-Generation Solid-State Battery Separator Equipment, Cobra\n\nDecember 5, 2024\n\nQuantumScape Releases Next-Generation Solid-State Battery Separator Equipment, Cobra\n\nDecember 5, 2024\n\nSAN JOSE, Calif. — December 5, 2024 — QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE: QS), a leader in solid-state lithium-metal battery technology, today announced that next-generation heat treatment equipment for its separator production process, Cobra, has been developed, delivered, installed and released for initial separator processing. Achieving this milestone on schedule puts the company on track to deliver higher-volume samples of its first planned commercial product, QSE-5, in 2025, and is a major step toward the commercialization of solid-state batteries for electric vehicles.\n\nCobra represents a significant innovation in ceramic solid-state separator production, benefiting both scalability and cost efficiency. This milestone is the culmination of years of advanced R&D on QuantumScape’s fast separator production process – the core innovation that will allow its battery technology to be manufactured at gigawatt-hour scale. The company is targeting Cobra integration into its cell production baseline in 2025.\n\n“Cobra is a true breakthrough in ceramics manufacturing, and it will pave the way for the scale up of our battery technology,” said Tim Holme, co-founder and CTO of QuantumScape. “I’m delighted with how the team has overcome challenges and kept the process roll-out on track this year.”\n\n“We set challenging and ambitious goals at the beginning of the year, and it required a focused team effort to achieve all of them,” said Dr. Siva Sivaram, CEO and president of QuantumScape. “There is a lot of work ahead of us, and with our track record of consistent execution and delivery on our milestones, I fully expect the team to continue building momentum toward gigawatt-hour scale up of our technology.”\n\nThe company established four annual goals at the beginning of 2024, all focused on integrating the improvements demonstrated at the component level in 2023 into the QSE-5. With the achievement of this milestone, the company has now fulfilled all four of its key annual objectives for 2024.\n\n1. Prepare for Cobra production in 2025. With today’s announcement, QuantumScape has taken delivery, installed and released for initial separator processing key equipment for its advanced separator manufacturing process, Cobra.\n2. Begin low-volume QSE-5 prototype production. In October, QuantumScape announced it had started producing and shipping the first low-volume B samples battery cells for automotive customer testing. The QSE-5 B sample features energy density of 844 Wh/L and is able to fast charge from 10% to 80% in 12.2 minutes.\n3. Ramp Raptor process. Raptor, the first stage of QuantumScape’s fast separator production process, entered the company’s baseline process in the third quarter of 2024. These films are used in the low-volume QSE-5 B samples.\n4. Ship Alpha-2 samples. Earlier in the year, the company announced it started shipping Alpha-2 samples to customers. These cells were precursors to the B samples."]
Leadership
Jagdeep Singh (CEO, Co-founder of QuantumScape and leader in battery technology innovation.), Celina Mikolajczak (Independent Director, Vice-President of Engineering & Battery Technology at Panasonic Energy of North America, with extensive experience in battery development for electric vehicles.), Jeneanne Hanley (Independent Director, former Senior Vice President at Lear Corporation, with over 25 years of experience in the automotive industry.), Gena Lovett (Independent Director, former Vice President of Operations for Defense, Space and Security at Boeing, with vast manufacturing experience.), Susan Huppertz (Independent Director, Chief Manufacturing and Supply Chain Officer at Hubbell Inc., specializing in high-volume manufacturing.), Frank Blome (Director, Head of Volkswagen Group’s Center of Excellence for Battery Cells.), Brad Buss (Director, former Tesla board member and CFO of Cypress Semiconductor and SolarCity.), Prof. Dr. Jürgen Leohold (Director, former Executive Director of Group Research at Volkswagen Group.), Justin Mirro (Director, CEO of Kensington Capital.), Prof. Fritz Prinz (Director, Co-founder of QuantumScape and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University.), Dipender Saluja (Director, Partner at Capricorn Investment Group.), J.B. Straubel (Director, Co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, CEO of Redwood Materials.), Jens Wiese (Director, Head of Investment Advisory and Partnerships at Volkswagen Group.)

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