The biggest bottleneck is in battery life cycle testing. We are not trying to create and recreate chemical processes in a computer because there's too many variables within the system that is a battery cell. You must physically make the battery cell and the powders. There is no substitute for that. Artificial intelligence will predict for you the exact material that you need to synthesize but we're not there yet.
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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