The million mile battery. It's not a crazy idea because we're not talking about individual cells over there. The incremental improvements in all of these categories will add up to creating that million miles battery. After 10 years, you're going to hold on to your battery pack and just substitute out a newer shiny. That could lock in zero emission transport kind of forever pretty quickly if you have a car that's going to last effectively forever.
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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