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| As we enter 2024, we're acting with competitive urgency, the successes of 2023 have us well positioned to execute |
| This solid execution underscores our confidence in overcoming our current challenges and those that lie ahead |
| Third, we will continue to develop our next generation of powders, which we believe will deliver improvements in connectivity, cost and performance |
| The team has done a great job getting samples out to six different potential customers with growing interest from battery manufacturers and auto OEMs |
| As we increase our volumes, we also intend to improve our manufacturing processes to drive greater consistency and performance |
| We think that to be able to do concurrent development with our technologies on all three continents is going to be a strategic advantage of ours |
| We've already made great strides to achieve a 1.1 metric ton per month run rate, and we'll use last year's optimizations to increase to 2.5 metric tons per month |
| Our ability to execute this program is a reflection of our strong liquidity position and our commitment to driving long-term shareholder value |
| We believe this new arrangement will enable us to collaborate more deeply on our cell development with a Tier 1 battery manufacturing partner, strengthen our competitive positioning by increasing our presence in Korea, demonstrate our capabilities as an electrolyte supplier with our first-ever electrolyte supply agreement and further strengthen our balance sheet over time |
| This represents a tremendous increase in scale and a new best for the company |
| These successes gave us a lot of positive momentum as we enter 2024, and we have some wins already this year |
| Taking a step back more generally during 2023, Solid Power also successfully grew the business to a total of over 270 employees, including key hires in late fourth quarter for supply chain and communications and further strengthened our management team and Board with the addition of essential expertise |
| Our '23 financial results reflect strong execution by the team from our start-up of SP2 all the way through our entry into a sample |
| This reinforces electrolyte as our core strategy, and I'm personally very excited about the great long-term opportunity this represents for our shareholders |
| Overall, it was a strong year for our powder team, pursuing market opportunities and continuing to improve production |
| 2023 was a milestone year for Solid Power, enabled by hard work and execution of the Solid Power team and the excellent collaboration we've had with our partners |
| Manufacturing yields improved greatly, and we also increased the quality on our 20-amp hour builds |
| We remain proud of the improvements our cell team has been able to achieve in 2023 |
| This reflects solid performance on key milestones, partner commitments and government contracts |
| With the increase in production, we've also seen improvements in cell performance |
| While still early, initial testing on A1 samples demonstrates generally good performance with incremental steps forward in cycle life, low temperature performance, pressure and energy density goals |
| We continue to believe that Solid Power stands to benefit immensely from the increased presence in this key battery market, and we look forward to sharing our progress as we continue to build our presence in Korea |
| The team is heavily focused on root cause analysis as safety is an area where we hold ourselves to a high bar and believe we can excel over the long term |
| We're excited about the opportunities these conversations open and are encouraged by the positive feedback we've gotten so far |
| But I'm pleased to say that the team is embracing standard, well-proven engineering principles to get to root cause, 8D, issue call diagrams, SMAs, etcetera |
| And yes, they are very strong on the Peninsula |
| We continue to feel confident in our development and strategic progress |
| These collaborations will enable us to build a stronger network in Korea with OEMs, battery manufacturers and materials and equipment providers while also keeping abreast of development trends, government incentives and new technologies |
| Our deepen partnership in 2024 is incredibly encouraging, and we look forward to substantial collaboration alongside the SK On team |
| But we are very excited about being able to tune our electrolytes specifically to our customer cell design needs |
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| This was well below our guidance range |
| Our '24 revenue from government contracts is expected to be lower than '23 |
| '23 revenue of $17.4 million fell right in the middle of our guidance range |
| One issue is a problem |
| We accelerated our cell development with a key partner and overcame significant yield challenges as we scale production, and we delivered our first EV cells to officially enter the automotive qualification process |
| 2023 cell development also presented us with challenges and unique learnings |
| Obviously, just having one is a problem |
| The discussion and the relationship with SK since putting that agreement in place has only gotten better |
| Our '23 operating loss was $90.6 million and net loss was $65.5 million or $0.37 per share |
| I think we've comprehended the OpEx that we need to on an ongoing basis, continue to iterate, evolve and recover from these situations like we've just signaled have occurred |
| We also have designed the SP2 electrolyte facility to already comprehend those changes from customer-to-customer |
| We don't see a significant cost increase in order to do that this year or next, we've comprehended that in our overhead structures that we've signaled to the market |
| So as you know, well, Mike, this is not a unique phenomenon to Solid Power |
| But can you maybe tell us what percent of the cells that you did produce were affected by this? Was it a flaw in just the cell that you've found, or was the overall, where all the cells produce the exact same way? And again, are there going to be some unusual or high cost to resolve that issue |
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