I can't believe a huge company like XIDE has no restructuring plan, as plan B, on the shelf waiting for update as needed. Not calling your statements into question, not my intent.
Humans love to need to believe the future will be alright.
Its how we manage our affairs.
Very few (if any) private or government businesses have ever thought much of disaster planning. We never think these events (loss and mistaken judgments) can happen to us.
I would suspect (as one poster commented), the large industrial and military battery contracts, seemingly would be the only USA battery component plants XIDE would now focus on as keep able corporate structure. Such tech would possess future battery production scenario for XIDE?
When you said TaTa to poster(s) . . . I had stock TATA Motors come to mind.
Not a battery expert, yet from what I have read . . . new Gel tech Pb batts are competitive for many users for new decade, or so (as they are established tech, cost competitive to exotic other batt techs and have less-explosive potential).
If one reads up and thinks a little about politics of economic trends coming up for USA and rest of world . . . we are all in for lots of change. To the best of my ability I see human species vastly challenged and not able to adapt to dawning AI networked economy and society. The NWO may become de-centralization and under such circumstances . . . batteries will still be much desired to stabilize such enterprises and grid systems.
Just my opinion, though it does look very sad that XIDE BOD was never able to achieve any sense of what their mission statement was for? They missed a number of important trends happening like the realities of working with massive retail establishments (e.g. Wall Mart positional bargaining) and need to enter the Li-ion tech area gradually.
I doubt I could explain to most why I invested in XIDE, except it was just a low-cost/small position coin flip (call it a Black Swan investment scenario). Things are never as they seem . . . and often dark pools fishing adventures?