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[shayan]

OP this is the company backed by Bill Gates.

Yes! And which is why I don't see this as all doom and gloom. Let's see how things proceed..

[caza]

No point in speculating on stuff like this that's entirely behind closed doors. All we really have to go on is QuantumScape's claims. They could be true, or false, regardless of who's money is backing them, and regardless of their intentions even. It could be that their tech is impressive and works, but manufacturing ends up being too difficult and costly to be viable. We won't know until production starts. Until then it's just promises we hope will pan out.

[NEW2elec]

Transport Evolved's take on QS.

[DonTom]

Learn some maths and logic from the last century, please, Don.  Argumentum ad Dictionary is not how you bite back against set theory.-Crissa

You think a "cell"  and "battery"  are exchangeable words? Simply use either?

How about if I said I have a cell made from many batteries?  Does that make sense to you also?

-Don-  Auburn, CA

[caza]

Hilariously, after listening to the Transport Evolved video that New2Elec linked to, they clarified that the cells are the size of a playing card, but the modules will be the size of the a deck of playing cards. (7:45 in the vid)

So if we're gonna put our foot down about a battery being a module of cells, the article is perfectly correct anyways.

Presumably you'd need quite a lot of modules for an EV pack, with 100 cells per module. Brace yourself for people tearing apart electric VW batteries in 10 years, and calling the modules cells.

Video noted that they still haven't figured out how to mass produce and test cells nor have they tested them in actual vehicles. 2025 sounds optimistic.

EDIT:
According to Merriam-Webster definition 4B:
 a group of two or more cells (see CELL sense 5) connected together to furnish electric current
also : a single cell that furnishes electric current

But yeah lets act like arguing about it is productive.

It's not a big deal. In everyday english language, battery often refers to a collection of cells or a single cell being used as, well, a battery. That doesn't mean the words are interchangeable, nobody is claiming that they are.