Michael: My parents are in the oil and gas industry. There's zero family conflict because oil and gas companies are starting to transition themselves into being energy companies. We need more companies like that, leading the charge in electrification in climate change for climate change to be solved.
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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