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by stetrain 118 days ago
I'm not sure being hesitant to accept claims without evidence is a mark against credibility.

I think stringing this out certainly has marketing advantages. But I think if they really had this kind of breakthrough they would be focusing on billion-dollar deals with manufacturers to ramp up capacity rather than internet hype marketing.
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naasking 118 days ago
> I'm not sure being hesitant to accept claims without evidence is a mark against credibility.

Some skeptics have gone much further than that, calling the Donut battery impossible.

The fact that they're taking their time addressing critics might just be an indication that they are making those deals. Time will tell.

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stetrain 118 days ago
> The fact that they're taking their time addressing critics might just be an indication that they are making those deals.

I think if they were doing so then there would not be much point in trying to market to the internet at large.

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naasking 118 days ago
They haven't said a peep since CES over a month ago where they very quietly talked about their battery, no big fan fare. They seemed to be keeping a pretty low profile, it was all the YouTubers that started a huge hype train. That drove a lot of understandable skepticism, and now they're getting third party tests done to settle the question, no doubt because some investors got nervous about all the skepticism.
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