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Sila lands $1.4B Pentagon loan as militaries demand more batteries

Battery materials startup Sila will use a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to scale production at its factory in Washington State.

Published by TechCrunch

Where: Iran, China, Washington, Minnesota, Ukraine

Exact coordinates

iran: 32.430, 53.690
china: 35.860, 104.200
washington: 38.910, -77.040
minnesota: 46.730, -94.690
ukraine: 48.380, 31.170

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Construction equipment and workers on a dirt lot in front of a building labeled Sila.
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