Mitra Kim used to be the senior manager for battery materials at Tesla. His company is building an iron based cathode that can be applicable for electric vehicles. "There's never been a better opportunity to build a company in the battery space because it is so sorely needed"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Vivas Kumar, founder of Mitra Chem, to talk about batteries (4:00), starting out at Tesla (8:10), launching his company (9:50), the race for battery resources (12:40), iron and China (14:00), meeting Chamath Palihapitya (18:10), going from India to Singapore to Texas to California (21:40), the Tesla roller coaster (26:30), making cathode powder (34:15), and the million-mile battery (39:30).
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