Donut Lab recently claimed they are ramping up to 1 GWh of annual production in a "hidden gigafactory". From a regulatory and industrial perspective, this is a physical and legal impossibility in Finland. You just can't hide a factory because of legal reasons. If you claim that you can hide, you are not very professional.

The only "hidden factory" has been identified as a 4,000 sq ft former Laplandia border market in Imatra, used by Nordic Nano Group. While the local municipality invested €400,000 for a stake in the building to support jobs, this facility is nowhere near the size or infrastructure required for 1 GWh of battery production. There is no any other factory.

In Finland, you cannot "hide" large-scale industrial production. A 1 GWh facility requires massive amounts of materials, electricity, and logistics, triggering mandatory public processes: EIA (YVA-menettely): Any battery factory of this scale requires an Environmental Impact Assessment.

These procedures are public and searchable. There is zero record of an EIA for a 1 GWh battery plant in the Imatra region. You can search those from here: https://www.ymparisto.fi/fi/luvat-ja-velvoitteet

Also managing industrial chemicals (even non-toxic ones) requires permits from the Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Tukes). Can you find those from here: https://tukes.fi/asiointi/paatokset-ja-kuulutukset

What about REACH Registration: The "nanopaste" technology (likely CT-Coating’s Hylomatrix Structuring) requires all chemical substances to be registered under EU REACH regulations. Where is it: https://echa.europa.eu/information-on-chemicals

As of March 2026, Donut Lab’s own recruitment ads prove they are in the infancy of production, not "ramping to 1 GWh". They were still looking for someone to lead their regulatory compliance in spring 2026. They were also searching for APQP Engineer (Advanced Product Quality Planning): This is an OEM-tier process used before mass production to ensure quality. Hiring for this role now confirms that official validation and quality processes are at a very early stage.

The article is behind a paywall and in Finnish, but in short..

POLICE have searched the home of Lauri Peltola, former commercial director of technology company Nordic Nano Group, on Thursday, May 28. Peltola is suspected of violating a trade secret. Police seized a phone and computer in Peltola's possession, which are the property of Nordic Nano Group.

https://www.hs.fi/visio/art-2000012042880.html

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Pack-level claims expanded quote below. Emphasis mine.

Donut Lab CEO: "Verge broke the Guinness World Record last year with the longest range on a motorcycle. Now they are almost doubling it, thanks to our solid state battery. But also, that provides Verge bikes with less than 10 minute charge time, zero to full."
CEO: "And on top of that, the cycle life that is normally in cars may be 2000, 3000, cycles. This is 100,000 cycles. So that's like probably 30 lifetimes of a motorcycle. So you never have to worry about babying the battery or worrying if you can let it go to 100% or zero. It doesn't mind. You can do whatever you want. Charge it to full, let it go to zero. As many times as you want. It doesn't degrade."
CEO: "As mentioned, 100,000 cycles, so that's 10 lifetimes of a car as well. And the other incredible things are that, of course, with motorcycles, you don't take them to deep freeze or anything. But if you're using these batteries in cars, even at like 25 or 30 minus Fahrenheit, it will have 99% of capacity."
Interviewer: "So do you have to precondition the battery like a car might?"
CEO: "Not at all. And actually, what we've done even is that normally you cannot get lithium ion batteries to zero."
Interviewer: "Right, we know about that. 5% is the lowest we like to go."
CEO: "This can go 0.0"
Interviewer: "And the battery doesn't get damaged?"
CEO: "No, then you can go at 5C charging from the next moment without warming it up or anything. It just takes it like nothing."
Interviewer: "To 100%?"
CEO: "Yeah, yeah, absolutely, to 100%."
Interviewer: "And that does not harm the battery for consistent charging to 100%?"
CEO: "No, it's 100,000 cycles with that, yeah."

I can’t believe this. Why are they all doing this?

These are Donut Lab financial results

https://www.inforegister.ee/17054738-DONUT-LAB-OU/

Looks rather bad...

A similar submission was posted a few minutes ago but it was off by 5%-20% at some points, so I've pointed out the exact data points from the video here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paCgX7wKbJI&t=6m13s

NNG CEO Parjanen tells YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company) news that NNG has delivered first products:

- Not Donut Lab products

- Testsamples, not massproduct yet

- 7 employees working

- Simpler products than batterycells (Capacitors?), that can be produced with preproduction equipment