Sila secures conditional $1.4B Pentagon commitment for U.S. anode production
Gene Berdichevsky's 15-year battery bet is moving from a 2 GWh Washington plant toward defense and auto-scale production.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: TechCrunch
Why it matters
The Pentagon is treating advanced battery materials as defense infrastructure. For Sila, the commitment could finance the factory scale that venture equity alone struggles to support.
Gene Berdichevsky, the former Tesla engineer who has spent 15 years trying to replace graphite inside lithium-ion batteries, has secured a $1.4 billion conditional Pentagon loan commitment for Sila to expand U.S. production of its silicon-carbon anode material.…
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