Shares of QuantumScape (QS -0.44%) rocketed more than 40% Thursday after a press release from a Volkswagen subsidiary confirmed some testing data. In this video, Motley Fool contributor Jason Hall puts this news in proper context and frames how investors should think about it now.

*Stock prices used were from the afternoon of Jan. 4, 2023. The video was published on Jan. 4, 2023.

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Jason Hall
Jason Hall is a contributing Motley Fool stock market analyst with more than a decade of experience writing about dividend stocks and long-term investing. He has been with the company since 2012 and previously spent over 10 years in technical sales in the printing and information services industry. Jason also founded and operated a small food manufacturing business.
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