QuantumScape

QS

Market cap $8.75B

China's new battery export curbs may give QuantumScape a timely edge as automakers seek graphite-free, U.S.-based alternatives.

The driverless vehicle market has the potential for explosive growth over the next two decades driven by technological advancements, safety improvements, and commercial applications and could be worth trillions of dollars as soon as 2030. It's likely to be a long bumpy road with challenges to gain public trust, navigate regulatory hurdles, and scale the business to generate profits.

Call it the ‘Zero-Dollar Club' — quantum batteries, electric air taxis, and quantum computers. For investors willing to take a chance on the future, these are the stocks making billion-dollar promises today, even if their revenue statements remain blank.

QuantumScape's soaring stock, Volkswagen deal gains and Cobra process breakthrough put the company's Q3 report in focus.

Excessive volatility returned to the market in a big way last week. The S&P 500 dropped more than 4% Friday, following more tariff saber-rattling from the Trump administration.

QuantumScape (QS -0.85%) is on the brink of turning its technology into full-scale manufacturing. Backed by Volkswagen's PowerCo and Bill Gates, the company's Cobra process could redefine energy storage efficiency.

Investors fell in love with electric vehicle (EV) and electric battery companies in 2020 and 2021. One company that went public during that time was QuantumScape (QS 15.58%), which was trying to commercialize solid-state batteries, and hit a market cap of over $45 billion even though it had zero revenue.

QuantumScape Corp (NYSE:QS) shares surged to a new 52-week high on Monday, riding a wave of optimism in the battery and critical materials sector. Here's what investors need to know.

QuantumScape (QS 17.62%) stock is soaring to start the new trading week. Shares of the solid-state lithium-metal battery maker have been in focus recently due to new production deals.

"Autonomous vehicles have arrived for both rideshare and trucking," Goldman Sachs Research analyst Mark Delaney wrote this summer. "We believe the key focus for investors is now on the pace at which AVs [autonomous vehicles] will grow and how big the market will become, rather than if the technology works.