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🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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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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0:00.0 | Yeah, technology. |
0:02.9 | What is it all about? |
0:04.4 | Well, I actually think that we're going to get to a future where you're going to disaggregate the business model of the battery from the car body. |
0:12.1 | And after 10 years, you're going to hold on to your battery pack and just substitute out a new or shiny. |
0:17.4 | You're going to hold on to the battery rather than the car. |
0:20.6 | Does the customer actually care what happens inside that battery? |
0:24.5 | Absolutely not. |
0:25.0 | They just want it to work, but they care about how the steering wheel looks. |
0:28.1 | They care about how the seats look. |
0:29.6 | They care about how the color looks, you know? |
0:31.8 | What they care about is completely different than what engineers like me care about. |
0:50.3 | Yeah. is completely different than what engineers like me care about. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top. |
0:56.1 | People in tech. |
0:57.6 | This week, we're talking batteries. |
1:00.3 | We're going to leave behind, at least for now, social media, which we covered last week, which I really enjoyed. |
1:05.1 | I hope you guys did as well. |
1:06.7 | But going back to kind of deep tech, hard science batteries. |
1:11.7 | That's right, because as we move forward with this whole push to electrify everything, |
1:17.5 | starting, of course, with transport, there's a really interesting kind of race for dominance |
1:21.8 | happening in the background that most people are not aware of because we need to dramatically, |
1:26.2 | and I mean dramatically, scale up our ability to not only source the materials we need for the batteries at the heart |
1:32.7 | of electric cars and electric planes and electric boats also being worked on, we need to |
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