The employee-owned Michigan firm turned contract engineering for Ford and the U.S. Army into software that predicts hot batteries, uncomfortable humans and visible military hardware - while those problems are still cheap enough to fix.
Michael Markesbery took $10,000 from an astronaut scholarship and a material NASA uses to insulate spacecraft, and spent a decade figuring out how to make it bend. Now Solarcore® sells that trick to boot brands, the Air Force, and battery makers.