Summary by Moomoo AI
On July 5, 2024, QuantumScape Corporation, through its subsidiary QuantumScape Battery, Inc., entered into a significant Collaboration Agreement with PowerCo SE, a battery cell company owned by the Volkswagen Group. The agreement aims to industrialize solid-state lithium-metal battery technology for use in QuantumScape's first planned product, the QSE-5. The collaboration will involve joint efforts to enable PowerCo to manufacture battery cells with the QSE-5 Technology, co-develop production processes, and share a joint staffed scale-up team. Additionally, the parties will co-own any new intellectual property developed, excluding each party's background IP and QuantumScape's separator technology. QuantumScape will grant PowerCo a non-exclusive, royalty-bearing license to use the QSE-5 Technology, with PowerCo pre-paying an...Show More