Simon Moores, Managing Director, Benchmark Minerals: China's Dominance of the Global Battery Race
In the summer of 2020, Simon Moores delivered a wake-up call to the US Senate: China is building one mega battery factory every week. The United States is building at a pace of just three per year. By...
15 Jul 202145min
Henrik Fisker, Founder and CEO, Fisker Inc on the Fisker Ocean SUV, Future Products and the Foxconn Connection
Henrik Fisker was born in a small town in Denmark in the 1960s. He loved taking rides on Danish country roads with his father in the family's Saab 96 sedan. One day a Maserati blew past them and Henri...
30 Jun 202146min
Anil Paryani, CEO, Auto Motive Power: What America Must Do To Catch Up With China and Europe in EV's.
Anil Paryani has been at the forefront of batteries and battery management systems since the early 1990s. He started at Honda and in 2007 pivoted to join a young startup called Tesla. There he worked ...
17 Jun 202137min
Jack Cheng, CEO, Foxconn MIH: The Foxconn Way to Build Electric Vehicles
Jack Cheng, co-founder at NIO and now CEO of MIH Alliance Foxconn, reveals how Foxconn will re-write the rules for EV manufacturing. In early 2021, Foxconn sent a tremor through automotive boardrooms ...
4 Jun 202144min
Michael Moe, Founder, GSV Capital: What Makes A Winning Entrepreneur
Michael Moe is intelligent, optimistic and inspiring. You learn something new from him in every conversation. In this episode we discover a lot about the man and the keys to his lifetime of successes,...
19 Mai 202136min
Eunice Yoon, CNBC Bureau Chief, On New China Realities in 2021
Being a foreign reporter in China used to be a wide-open and exciting adventure. No more. Today, foreign journalists are constantly monitored, their travel is limited and fewer Chinese people feel fre...
5 Mai 202138min
Kevin Xu, Founder, Interconnected, on China's Star-Crossed Quest To Build A World-Class Semiconductor Industry
China aspires to develop world-class capability in the designing, engineering and producing semiconductors. But as Chairman Mao liked to say: "The road ahead is bright but full of twists and turns, se...
21 Apr 202146min
Brian Gu - Xpeng Vice Chairman - On Building An EV Startup To Compete With Tesla
Xpeng Motors is one of China's most impressive EV startups. The company was founded in 2014 by billionaire He Xiaopeng. Mr. He sensed an opportunity to bring his expertise in technology and software t...
7 Apr 202139min
