Whilst I would be please to have any partner that gets us...

Whilst I would be please to have any partner that gets us started.... and VW would be a good start I am fundamentally wary of getting into bed with an automotive company. The age of the internal combustion engine automobile is coming to an end and being replaced by automated electronic carriages on wheels. The main difference for me is that the electronics world is used to disruptive, fast moving, price dropping developments and the automotives aren’t. I do not see many/any of today’s car brands surviving the next decades against the Google’s, Tesla’s and Microsoft’s of this world; it is their domain into which we move. Adaption and adoption rates way more distructive than those that the automotives have previously experienced. 

I am far happier if we mine, process and sell to our offtake partners without ties to companies that might not survive the electric revolution.