OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS

TESLA

• From 33 rounds of funding, Tesla's total funding amounts to approximately $17.8 billion.
• In May 2019, Tesla acquired a San Diego-based business, Maxwell Technologies, that develops ultra-capacitors, which could supply a connection to "solid-state battery technology."
• The supercharger network from Tesla grants swift charge times with around half an hour (30 minutes) to charge a drained vehicle up to about 80%.

SOLID POWER

• Throughout its history, Solid Power has had merely two funding rounds amounting to $20 million.
• The Ford Motor Company partnered with the establishment to manufacture solid-state batteries meant for next-generation electric cars.
• In the year 2017, Solid Power partnered with the BMW Group to collaboratively build the company's solid-state batteries designed for applications for electric cars.

QUANTUM SCAPE

• As listed by Crunchbase, the company has had just one funding round.
• Quantum Scape's total funding amount is around $100 million.
• As of 2019, Volkswagen and Quantum Scape are in partnership to produce solid-state batteries with investment of about $100 million.

CATL

• In 2018, CATL underwent a series B Byton funding round in which it accumulated $500 million.
• The company raised about $33,771,416 in a funding round through Valmet Automotive in the year 2017.
• BMW, Toyota, Honda, Nissan Motor, CATL, and Nissan Motor are in a partnership to produce batteries for electric automobiles.
• The company succeeded in reaching 304Wh/kg with its brand-new battery cells.

CYMBET

• According to Crunchbase, Cymbet has had roughly 12 funding rounds amounting to $80.7 million.
• Following its investment in creating a production manufacturing procedure for solid-state micro-batteries, Cymbet is currently distributing the company's EnerChip batteries in high volume production at X-Fab in the state of Texas.

ENEVATE

• Enevate has experienced over six different funding rounds amounting to $40 million.
• Enevate's HD-Energy Technology facilitates Lithium-ion cells that contain 50% larger capacity when compared to conventional graphite cells. It is capable of charging cells up to about 75% capacity in around five minutes. (source 13)

FISKER INC.

• Fisker Inc. has undergone two separate funding rounds, according to Crunchbase.
• The company is one of the first businesses to administer solar panels over the length of a vehicle's roof with a maximum range between two different charges of at least 300 miles or 483 kilometers. This achievement came about after the development of Fisker Inc.'s 80-kWh lithium-ion battery pack.

FORD

• Ford has orchestrated about 17 different investments. The corporation's most recent investment was for $500 million.
• In April 2019, the company entered an agreement with Solid Power to generate solid-state power batteries.

BRIGHT VOLT

• In the year 2016, BrightVolt underwent a series B funding and accumulated around $5 million.
• BrightVolt's total funding from more than 14 separate rounds of fundraising amounts to $87.8 million.
• BrightVolt's solid-state battery has several advantages thanks to the up-to-date Branson ultrasonic welder, Metrohm Microcell HD, Keyence Digital Microscope, as well as an added Arbin 128 channel battery test programs.

EXCELLATRON SOLID STATE

• According to its website, Excellatron Solid State is privately funded.
• It claims that its thin film batteries contain a long shelf and cycle life for flexible and ceramic polymer substrates, which makes them commercially viable.