Honestly, I've kept a skeptical distance on Donut Labs' new solid-state battery, as while I'm appreciative of small companies pushing technology forward, the company's history of marketing technical specifications in the best light possible is one to be sus about at first. The most egregious of them all being the brand's "world-record" range test that occurred at just 12 mph through London in stop-and-go traffic.
I'm pretty sure anything would get ridiculously good mileage that way.
So when Donut Labs and its partner Verge Motorcycles announced that it had finally figured out solid-state batteries, something much of the rest of the automotive and electrification world has been working toward for decades, and slapped it into a motorcycle, my Spidey-sense kicked in. Then the companies started dropping supposed "third-party" tests that backed up a host of pie-in-the-sky claims. RideApart, and myself, have remained skeptical, though.
