12 Best EV Battery Stocks to Buy in 2025

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6) QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE:QS)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 22

QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE:QS) is the R&D stage company, which focuses on the development and commercialization of solid-state lithium-metal batteries for EVs and other applications. Its technology makes it stand apart from traditional lithium-ion batteries, using an innovative anode-free design. This design provides several key advantages, such as the potential for significantly increased energy density, faster charging speeds, and improvement in safety features. Raptor, the first implementation of the disruptively fast separator production process, forms part of QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE:QS)’s baseline production process.

Raptor reflects a significant improvement from the company’s last-generation technology in film quality and performance, heat-treatment time, and energy consumption. QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE:QS) expects that Raptor will continue to support its QSE-5 sample output into 2025. Next, the company announced that the next-generation heat treatment equipment for its separator production process, Cobra, is now developed, delivered, installed, and released for initial separator processing.

This places QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE:QS) on track to deliver higher-volume samples of its first planned commercial product, QSE-5, in 2025, and forms a major step towards the commercialization of solid-state batteries for EVs. The broader EV industry continues to transition towards higher-performance batteries to address challenges related to range, charging time and safety of conventional lithium-ion batteries. With automakers seeking battery solutions, QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE:QS)’s QSE-5 cells are expected to see traction from well-established EV manufacturers.

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