Sila's Gene Berdichevsky: "The world's going 100% electric"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Gene Berdichevsky, founder of Sila, to talk about the sudden global decision to electrify transport (4:30), his history at Tesla (7:50), creating a new battery technology (12:00), black magic dust (16:00), launching Sila a decade ago (23:30), the shift within the financial community (28:50), the million-mile battery (32:50), emigrating from the former Soviet Union (38:30), solar-powered cars (42:15), and the shift toward climate tech in Silicon Valley (46:00).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:03.0	What is it all about?
0:04.4	I think you can't have policy without the technology.
0:07.1	Some people sort of want, you know, policy will solve this.
0:10.1	No, other people say technology will solve this.
0:12.2	No, you really need both.
0:13.6	And the two work hand in hand.
0:15.6	We need to have the technology that makes a government able to say we're going to go 100% renewable with battery.
0:30.7	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.
0:33.1	Thank you for tuning in.
0:34.4	I am your host, Danny Fordson.
0:36.8	And this week, we have a return guest who's
0:41.0	coming back to talk to us two and a half years, nearly two and a half years since he was last
0:46.3	on the pod. My goodness, time flies. It's kind of crazy. And that guest this week is Gene
0:52.4	Berticiewski. And he is the co-founder and CEO of CELA
0:56.3	Nanotechnologies.
0:57.7	And for longtime listeners, you may recall Gene was a very early employee at Tesla.
1:02.2	He helped build the first battery pack for the roadster.
1:05.4	And then he left to start his own thing, which is CELA.
1:07.4	And their kind of idea back in 2011 was to basically remake a core
1:13.6	chemistry of batteries to make them far more efficient and effective. And that's a tall order.
1:18.5	Nothing's really changed with lithium ion batteries in like 30 years. So it was a classic kind
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