The Times Tech Podcast

Mitra Chem's Vivas Kumar: "Building a US battery champion"

May 13, 2022

44:31

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The Secret Sauce of Machine Learning in Battery Materials?

01:40

Silicon Valley

02:25

How Did You End Up in Texas?

01:33

Introduction

2min

Batteries Are the Heart of the Race for Dominance

3min

The Future of EVs Is in the Supply Chain, Right?

3min

Mitra Kim - What's the Big Idea?

4min

Is Iron Based Cathode a Better Alternative to Nickel?

2min

Is China the King of the Supply Chain?

3min

Nickel Rich Batteries

2min

How to Start a Battery Company?

2min

How to Solve Climate Change With Software

4min

10.

How Did You End Up in Texas?

2min

11.

What Is Mitra?

2min

12.

Is There a Family Conflict?

2min

13.

Silicon Valley - Is Tesla Going Bust?

2min

14.

Silicon Valley

2min

15.

The Tolerance for Failure

2min

16.

The Secret Sauce of Machine Learning in Battery Materials?

2min

17.

The Bottleneck Between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

3min

18.

The Million Mile Battery

2min

19.

Electrification - Is the Demand Really There?

2min

20.

The TED Tech Podcast - What's Next?

3min

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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The Times Tech Podcast

Mitra Chem's Vivas Kumar: "Building a US battery champion"

The Secret Sauce of Machine Learning in Battery Materials?

Silicon Valley

How Did You End Up in Texas?

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