There's a lot of iron in the world. And it's going back to what you guys are doing at this company. Is it as good though from make is it as efficient as a as nickel in a battery? You do take a hit on energy density at the individual cell level. But isn't that quite critical for batteries? It does feel like there's benefits to swapping iron for nickel.
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).
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.