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In January of this year, Donut Lab sent shockwaves through the automotive and energy sectors with the announcement of the Donut Battery. Claiming to be the world’s first all-solid-state battery pack available to OEMs today, the company promised a revolutionary combination of performance, safety, and a price point that competes with standard lithium-ion. The response, as Donut Lab CEO and co-founder Marco anticipated, was immediate and brutal: the internet called it a scam.
In a new video series announced today, Donut Lab is fighting back against what it calls “industry certainty” by releasing third-party validation of its technology. But according to Marco, the skepticism wasn’t just casual internet speculation; it was a coordinated narrative driven by vested interests.
“It’s the same pattern we saw with the Donut motor,” Marco explains in the video. “When we launched that, people said it was CGI and broke the laws of physics. A representative from a major German motor manufacturer told us it couldn’t be true because if it were, their organization would have patented it 60 years ago.”
Now, with the battery, the accusations have escalated from “CGI” to “scam.” Marco points to specific instances where critics claimed the Donut Battery was actually a supercapacitor, or pointed to an empty building belonging to a partner company as “proof” that no production facility exists. He argues that the media amplified these claims by quoting industry “experts” who declared the technology scientifically impossible without ever testing it.
So why didn’t Donut Lab release the proof immediately? According to Marco, it was a deliberate strategy. He argues that if they had released the data on day one, the goalposts would have simply moved from “it’s not possible” to “you can’t scale it.”
“We wanted the loudest voices to go on record first,” he states. “We wanted them to broadcast to everyone that this cannot exist. Now, when we show the evidence, everyone can see the pattern and recognize that the doubt is often driven by people with a direct interest in maintaining the status quo.”
The “Donut Battery Proof Series” will feature testing and verification from a respected, state-owned research and science center. Marco admits that even with empirical evidence, the resistance won’t disappear it will intensify. He notes the irony that while some of the world’s largest battery manufacturers have publicly called the Donut Battery a scam, their investment arms have privately reached out to discuss funding.
“This technology is a threat to the established players,” Marco concludes. “Big companies are built to optimize and protect, not to make giant leaps. Then from somewhere, a small unknown team shows up and changes the entire map. That is the story of Donut Battery. No, it’s not a scam, and yes, it will change the industry.”
