电动汽车产业方兴未艾，比尔·盖茨也要分一杯羹
有鉴于投资者对电动汽车公司的强烈兴趣，比尔·盖茨投资的一家初创企业计划通过上市筹集10亿美元的资金。
为电动车开发速充电池的QuantumScape称，公司将与已经上市的特殊目的收购公司Kensington Capital Acquisition合并，并发行更多的股票，以筹集10亿美元的资金。合并之后，开发其电池技术的QuantumScape将获得33亿美元的估值。
在该交易开展之际，投资者的热情让助推电动汽车公司的股价一路高涨，埃隆·马斯克的特斯拉一马当先。尽管特斯拉的股价在上周三下降了6%，但它今年依然增长了4倍。与此同时，中国电动汽车制造商蔚来的股价亦上涨了近4倍，而三轮电动车制造商Arcimoto和充电网络Blink公司则增长了近3倍。这一现象也刺激了多家类似的初创企业通过与特殊目的收购公司合并的方式来上市，其中包括QuantumScape、Fisker和Canoo等，
QuantumScape由首席执行官佳格迪普·辛格创建于2010年，这位连续创业家此前曾创建和销售的公司包括被Ciena于1999年以10亿美元收购的Lightera Networks。
辛格执掌的QuantumScape与大众合作开发了电动汽车和卡车的电池，其续航将是现有电池技术的两倍，而且充电速度更快。然而大众称，使用QuantumScape电池的车辆可能要到2025年才能面世。
QuantumScape此前筹集了8亿美元的资金，投资者包括微软创始人盖茨以及风投资本公司Kleiner Perkins。最近的交易吸引了投资公司Fidelity Management & Research和Janus Henderson Investors
盖茨上周在一个视频中谈论该公司时表示：“要取代现有所有车型，我们需要能够快速充电、体积小、成本低、与汽油车型续航相当的电池。QuantumScape拥有非常不错的电池，是该挑战应对解决方案的一部分。”（财富中文网）
译者：Feb
有鉴于投资者对电动汽车公司的强烈兴趣，比尔·盖茨投资的一家初创企业计划通过上市筹集10亿美元的资金。
为电动车开发速充电池的QuantumScape称，公司将与已经上市的特殊目的收购公司Kensington Capital Acquisition合并，并发行更多的股票，以筹集10亿美元的资金。合并之后，开发其电池技术的QuantumScape将获得33亿美元的估值。
在该交易开展之际，投资者的热情让助推电动汽车公司的股价一路高涨，埃隆·马斯克的特斯拉一马当先。尽管特斯拉的股价在上周三下降了6%，但它今年依然增长了4倍。与此同时，中国电动汽车制造商蔚来的股价亦上涨了近4倍，而三轮电动车制造商Arcimoto和充电网络Blink公司则增长了近3倍。这一现象也刺激了多家类似的初创企业通过与特殊目的收购公司合并的方式来上市，其中包括QuantumScape、Fisker和Canoo等，
QuantumScape由首席执行官佳格迪普·辛格创建于2010年，这位连续创业家此前曾创建和销售的公司包括被Ciena于1999年以10亿美元收购的Lightera Networks。
辛格执掌的QuantumScape与大众合作开发了电动汽车和卡车的电池，其续航将是现有电池技术的两倍，而且充电速度更快。然而大众称，使用QuantumScape电池的车辆可能要到2025年才能面世。
QuantumScape此前筹集了8亿美元的资金，投资者包括微软创始人盖茨以及风投资本公司Kleiner Perkins。最近的交易吸引了投资公司Fidelity Management & Research和Janus Henderson Investors
盖茨上周在一个视频中谈论该公司时表示：“要取代现有所有车型，我们需要能够快速充电、体积小、成本低、与汽油车型续航相当的电池。QuantumScape拥有非常不错的电池，是该挑战应对解决方案的一部分。”（财富中文网）
译者：Feb
Amid strong investor appetite for electric-vehicle companies, a startup backed by Bill Gates plans to raise $1 billion by going public.
QuantumScape, which is developing quick-charging batteries for electric cars, says it will merge with Kensington Capital Acquisition, an already publicly traded special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, and issue more equity to raise $1 billion. Once merged, QuantumScape, which is still working on its battery technology, would be valued at $3.3 billion.
The deal comes as investors send the stock prices of EV companies soaring, led by Elon Musk's Tesla. Though Tesla's share price declined 6% on Wednesday, it's still up more than fivefold this year. Meanwhile, Chinese EV maker Nio is up almost fivefold, while three-wheeled electric-vehicle maker Arcimoto and charging network Blink are up almost fourfold. That has prompted a number of similar startups, ranging from QuantumScape to Fisker to Canoo, to go public by merging with SPACs.
QuantumScape was founded in 2010 by CEO Jagdeep Singh, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded and sold companies including Lightera Networks, bought by Ciena in 1999 for $1 billion.
Singh's QuantumScape has partnered with Volkswagen to develop batteries for electric cars and trucks that would double the range of existing battery technology and enable faster recharging. Volkswagen says vehicles with QuantumScape batteries probably won't be available in cars until 2025, however.
QuantumScape has previously raised a total of $800 million from investors including Microsoft founder Gates and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. The latest deal has attracted Fidelity Management & Research and Janus Henderson Investors.
"To replace all of the existing cars we need batteries that charge quickly, that take up less space, that cost less and give cars the same range as their gas-powered rivals," Gates said last week in a video about the company. "QuantumScape has a great battery that is part of the solution to this challenge."
