164 - Charging Into the Future - Inside Li-Metal's Battery Breakthrough with Srini Godavarthy
The next generation of battery technologies (solid state batteries) are critical for the mass adoption of electric vehicles. Both mileage and affordability are driven by battery technology. Dominated by China, these factors have been putting barriers on the west. Even with the IRA, the USA is missing a step between mining to battery production. The cost to bridge this gap is huge, and it requires a lot of investment, effort and willpower, and the biggest hurdle is that we do not have enough l...