This week, we're talking batteries. China controls lithium ion battery production to an astounding degree. Mitra Kim is developing some key battery components and iron cathodes as a first step in this grand plan. They reckon they could be the first American battery champion amid this broader race for dominance with China. It's just a really interesting kind of snapshot in time as we move toward the electrification of everything.
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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