Jaramillo: Electrochemistry is not solved until manufactured at relevant scale and cost
Mateo Jaramillo · Form Energy's manufacturing breakthrough · Jul 1, 2026 · at 18:06
Matteo Jaramillo, CEO of Form Energy, discusses why hardware battery startups cannot separate core chemistry development from manufacturing scale-up.
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“In fact, those are in many ways the same problem. Like, and you can't say that you've solved the electrochemistry until you're making it at a relevant scale You know, relevant throughput, with relevant yields, with relevant costs. Like, that's when you know you're done, I don't want to say done, that's when you know you actually have an understanding, I would say, of your electrochemistry.”
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