Startup Donut Lab made a splash at first of the 12 months with some astonishing — — claims about its strong state batteries. Now Finnish newspaper reviews a person has filed a legal whistleblower criticism in opposition to the corporate over these claims.
, Lauri Peltola was listed because the Chief Industrial Officer at Nordic Nano — the agency reportedly contracted to deal with parts of the manufacturing on Donut’s behalf, and which Donut Lab has . He reportedly filed a legal criticism that Donut Lab’s guarantees of power density and longevity have been overstated and that the corporate lacks the manufacturing capability beforehand claimed.
HS suggests it has seen copies of inner communications between Donut Lab and two companion firms, CT-Coating and Nordic Nano. The paper says that CT-Coating’s first-generation battery is the one which Donut Lab has been promoting, and is the mannequin it handed to Finnish nationwide lab VTT to check. However, in response to the emails seen by HS, CT-Coating had deserted growth on that cell in favor of a one nonetheless in early growth, regardless of Donut Lab’s in January that it had a expertise able to enter mass manufacturing.
Donut Lab CEO Marko Lehtimäki reportedly advised HS he had no data of Peltola’s criticism. Nordic Nano CEO Esa Parjanen, in the meantime, denied Peltola’s accusations, saying that his views weren’t shared by the corporate and that Peltola had no involvement with Nordic’s battery venture. In a joint Donut Lab and Nordic Nano said they “have no idea the precise nature of the criticism” however denied “having dedicated any crime or deceptive buyers.” In addition they describe the complainant (presumably Peltola, although the assertion doesn’t identify him) as not having “the required data of battery expertise or the general image of the event work.”
