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Sila Nanotechnologies: The Powder That Will Power EVs

When Gene Berdichevsky and Alex Jacobs moved into a rented house in Atlanta in September 2011, they figured it would be six months, maybe nine, before they’d made enough progress on their startup road map to return to the San Francisco Bay Area in triumph.

They were off by only a couple of years.

One of Tesla’s earliest engineering leaders, Berdichevsky wanted to make a new kind of lithium-ion battery, one that would

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