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QuantumScape’s solid-state battery program has hit major milestones in 2025. In late June 2025, the company announced the successful integration of its new “Cobra” ceramic separator manufacturing process into baseline production quantumscape.com. Cobra is a high-throughput, continuous-flow process for making QuantumScape’s patented ceramic electrolyte separators, yielding a ~25× increase in heat-treatment speed and a dramatically smaller equipment footprint compared to the prior “Raptor” process quantumscape.com quantumscape.com. QuantumScape’s CEO Dr. Siva Sivaram hailed Cobra as a “step-change improvement in ceramic separator manufacturing” that significantly boosts production throughput and brings the technology closer to commercialization quantumscape.com. The company achieved this key 2025 goal ahead of schedule – Cobra was fully installed and qualified by Q2 2025 s29.q4cdn.com – enabling QuantumScape to begin ramping up its next-generation prototype cells.