Every single large automaker is aggressively investing in EVs. And the natural consequence of that is that they are all aggressively investing in batteries as well. benchmark mineral intelligence, which tracks the industry, said that the current pipeline for gigafactories that are planned in construction and commissioning is about six terawatt hours of capacity.
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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