
#16: MIT Professor Donald R. Sadoway, global battery expert
The Vertical Space
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The Automotive Industry Is Not Investing Long Term
The automotive industry invests in getting something that they can put into a car on the assembly line this afternoon. Radical innovation does not come from the auto industry and radical innovation doesn't even come from t battery industry. Lithiami came because sony wanted to put it into the next generation of hand cameras, the handicamps. And every one of those battery producers refused to build that battery had investments in nichel metal hydrate.
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