Daqus Energy has a plan to make EV sports cars fast, light, and cheap

Cheaper, lighter, and denser: the trifecta defines an ideal battery. No one has devised a perfect cell quite yet, but one stealthy startup thinks it has found a new material that solves at least two of those challenges.

Daqus Energy has been quietly operating for the past couple years, refining a compound known as TAQ that promises to be cheaper and lighter than competing battery materials.

“We have not seen a metric at which TAQ does poorly compared with the incumbents,” Harish Banda, co-founder and CEO of Daqus, told TechCrunch. The…