The product that we put out into the world is a cathode powder which can be used in batteries that go into electric vehicles. The secret sauce, what makes us unique is an in-house advantage of machine learning to significantly reduce by over 90% the time and money needed to get to a new product. Typically it takes over 10 years to invent a new battery material.
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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