Boom! Pop! Battery Lockup. John Voelcker On Some Unpleasant Fast-Charging Moments
In late 2022 and early 2023, customers from Ford, Rivian and Bolt separately reported an unusual and slightly terrifying experience while fast charging their vehicles. In the middle of their charge se...
9 Mar 202344min
Breaking China's Graphite Monopoly. Nico Cuevas, Founder, Urbix Resources
Graphite is a core component of lithium-ion batteries, accounting for up to 30% of the value of a battery cell. Today, Chinese companies utterly dominate refining, producing 93% of all processed graph...
17 Feb 202329min
Fixing The Charging Experience. John Thomas, COO, Autel Energy North America
Today’s charging experience in North America is, to be blunt, not good. New EV owners meet disappointment in the very first weeks of ownership. Some chargers are broken. Others are slow. Still others ...
9 Feb 202335min
Richard Windsor: Why Legacy Automakers Are Sitting Ducks – It's The Software
Imagine a future in which car buyers choose a make and model based not on acceleration, handling and braking but on their digital cockpit experience. How well does the navigation work? How rich are th...
2 Feb 202342min
Joe Lowry, Aka "Mr Lithium": Are Lithium Prices Headed Up – Or Down?
Meet Joe Lowry, a man who in the battery minerals world is known as Mr Lithium. Lowry got his start in lithium at just about the same time that lithium ion batteries first started powering made-in-Jap...
26 Jan 202336min
John Pomfret, Author, From Warsaw With Love. The American-Polish Spy Relationship, Ukraine, China and the New Great Game.
There are a lot of people in America and Europe willing to tell you that they "know China." In reality, very few Westerners really understand China. Fewer still can communicate what they know in clear...
19 Jan 202344min
Madame Thuy Le, CEO, VinFast: From Startup to America At Lightspeed
Meet VinFast, Vietnam's young, bold and relentless EV champion. In late December, 2022, Madame Thuy Le, VinFast CEO, supervised operations at the port in Haiphong as the first 999 VinFast VF 8s were l...
12 Jan 202336min
ICYMI - Meet Battery Brunch With Yen Yeh, Co-Founder, Volta Foundation
Have you been searching for an expert go-to source for knowledge on batteries? Look no further, Battery Brunch is here. In 2019, MIT graduates and Silicon valley battery scientists Yen Yeh (Voltaiq), ...
29 Des 202227min
