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A solid-state battery charges in five minutes

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Donut Lab introduced a solid-state battery that charges in five minutes, while CATL began commercial-scale sodium-ion deployment.

Reported metric: 5 minutes

Reporting date: 2026-01-06 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 6, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Burning molecules to mint tokens

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A truck takes 1.2 MW of charge

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A solid-state battery charges in five minutes
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Reporting date: 2026-01-06
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-06-five-minute-solid-state-battery
Claim: Donut Lab introduced a solid-state battery that charges in five minutes, while CATL began commercial-scale sodium-ion deployment.
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- Welcome to January 6, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-6-2026
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