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mrtksntoday at 1:24 PM5 repliesview on HN

Apparently the first 3rd party test was on fast charging and the 3rd party is VTT, which is the government affiliated(owned?) "VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland"

The people listed on this report appear to be on LinkedIn, so I guess it will be easy to confirm if the test document is authentic.

The announcement of the test: https://youtu.be/d2QU_LpkSPs

Hopefully, soon we will find out if this seemingly "too good to be true" is a revolution or something else.


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doikortoday at 2:11 PM

> Apparently the first 3rd party test was on fast charging and the 3rd party is VTT, which is the government affiliated(owned?) "VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland"

It is a govenrment owned non-profit company.

As one of its services it will independently verify your product/invention/whatever works as claimed (for a bunch of money).

https://www.vttresearch.com/en

patapongtoday at 1:59 PM

Careful though, this test explicitly only tests the charge and discharge capabilities of the battery, not whether it's a solid state battery or not. According to ChatGPT, these results would in theory also be possible with a normal Li-ion battery. I am really hoping this is real though! And waiting for further tests.

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vipulbhjtoday at 1:34 PM

I’ve been digging into the data (using Gemini and a few other sources). The claims behind https://idonutbelieve.com/ are pretty bold. I’d like to be optimistic, but I’m going to wait for more independent verification before drawing any conclusions.

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kevlenedtoday at 1:27 PM

> They also published the report here: https://pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev/VTT_CR_0...

That's the same link. Is there a way to attest that this is an official VTT report?

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scoottoday at 1:45 PM

Fast charging, long life, low cost – pick two.

Actually, there are a bunch of other variables (energy density, stability, discharge current, etc. etc.), so the probability of a technology that improves one significantly without negatively affecting at least one other is vanishingly small. Hence the number of overhyped battery technologies that get reported but never productised.

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