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

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Mitra Chem's Vivas Kumar: "Building a US battery champion"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:44:31
• Published: 2022-05-13 04:00

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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