Yes good fellow BB & good fellow Rogues, good fellow part-time...

Yes good fellow BB & good fellow Rogues, good fellow part-time Joe knows good fellow Charlie is very very capable Scientist, as evidient in the IP applications.  It is clear that indispensability is not an issue/drama, and now greater funds can be re-channelled into highly specialised Battery specific expertise. 

Yes good fellow Surges, "various silicon particle substrates" - these tend to be propritory formulas and likley particular to battery component suppliers.  "External parties" could be just data pack confirmation work with Polaris Batteries and CustomCell, but we know these names and why were working with them so why not say so.  We don't know (some tasty guesses out there though) who the MOU & MTA are respectively with, and the wording "(as required)" indicates meshing with 3rd party works. 

The Mar 17, Charlie's CACLP Expo presentation in Qingdao connected with many DX companies.

[AJIMHO]

A DMTC MCM Program reboot may just coincidently fall on 16th Nov.  [JAT]