Ford seems to have picked its partner for a sally into solid-state batteries, with a second round investment in Solid Power, which together with BMW and Volta Energy Technology has put $130 million into the venture. Solid Power lines up against one of the leading SPAC investments of last year, QuantumScape – which having gone the SPAC funding route, is essentially public and has attracted $680 million of funding, mostly in a Pipe investment and as part of the merger, with the Special Acquisition Company heavily backed by Volkswagen and banking partner Kensington Capital. The QuantumScape valuation quickly leapt to $20 billion from the $3 billion when it went public, but today has fallen back to just $13 billion, after…