Elon Musk: I was looking for a cross-cultural name, something that could fit multiple languages. He asked his dad and he suggested the name Mitra. In Hindi, Mitra means friendship. "I know it's very easy to demean the oil and gas industry," Tesla CEO says. 'But we can't take away the fact of rapid oil and gas industrialization'
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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