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Welcome to Cell Siders, a look at the business and technology of batteries from the cell side of things.
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Episode 11 - The Hersh Truth, Part 2: A Conversation with Emily Hersh
Our conversation with lithium mining entrepreneur Emily Hersh continues in part 2. In this episode, she discusses how she sees the future evolution of lithium ion batteries, how she identifies projects that are worth taking on, and what makes a person take on entrepreneurship as a career path. Plus we play a lightning round of rapid-fire questioning and Emily coins my new favorite neologism.
For more from Emily, make sure to check out her podcast series The Minerals Manhattan Project: https://www.mineralsmanhattanproject.com/ -
Episode 10 - The Hersh Truth, Part 1: A Conversation with Emily Hersh
Emily Hersh, mining entrepreneur and gifted raconteur, joins us to talk all things lithium. Our conversation was so long and wide-ranging we had to split it into two parts. In part one, we discuss how she got started in the lithium industry and the geopolitics of lithium in South America. Make sure to check out Emily's podcast, The Minerals Manhattan Project, here: https://www.mineralsmanhattanproject.com/
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Episode 9 - The State of Solid State: A Conversation with Chloe Holzinger
Chloe Holzinger, ex-IHS Markit analyst and newly of The Engine, stops by to talk about her background in batteries and tech startups, the future of solid state batteries as she sees it, and the way she thinks about identifying great businesses. Then, she turns the tables and makes the Cell Siders open up about their views on the next ten years in the battery industry.
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Episode 8 - Fly Like an E-gull: A Conversation With Shashank Sripad
In this episode we talk with Shashank Sripad, a Ph.D candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, about his work on electric aviation and lithium-ion batteries for EVTOL applications. He explains the benefits of electric propulsion for aircraft, reveals why energy density is not the most important factor for urban air mobility, and tells us what the companies in the space are doing to develop new battery technologies...or rather, what they aren't doing.
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Episode 7 - Blighty's Batteries: A Conversation With Jon Regnart
In this episode we talk with Jon Regnart from the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK about Britain's strategic approach to growing its battery and EV industry. He also discusses how the UK goes about building links between academia and industry, the importance of a domestic battery manufacturing supply chain for the automotive sector more generally, and reveals where the most attractive profit pools are in the battery industry (and it's not where you might think).
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Episode 6 - Hard Rock Cafe: A Conversation With Joe Lowry
In this episode we sit down to talk with Joe Lowry, from Global Lithium and the Global Lithium Podcast, about the future of the lithium supply chain. We discuss what the lithium industry needs to do in order to grow up, what 2030 could look like if we play our cards right, and reveals why all the wounds in the battery arms race are self-inflicted.