Cheaper, lighter, and denser: the trifecta defines an ideal battery. No one has devised a perfect cell quite yet, but one stealthy startup thinks it has found a new material that solves at least two of those challenges.
rel=”nofollow” href=”https://daqusenergy.com”Daqus Energy has been quietly operating for the past couple years, refining a compound known as TAQ that promises to be cheaper and lighter than competing battery materials.
“We have not seen a metric at which TAQ does poorly compared with the incumbents,” Harish Banda, co-founder and CEO of Daqus, told TechCrunch. The…

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