Cell Siders

May 31 2021 12 ep. 42 mins 14
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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

May 31 2021 32 mins  
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

Episode 10 - The Hersh Truth, Part 1: A Conversation with Emily Hersh

May 24 2021 36 mins  
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.mine

Episode 9 - The State of Solid State: A Conversation with Chloe Holzinger

May 17 2021 50 mins  
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.

Episode 8 - Fly Like an E-gull: A Conversation With Shashank Sripad

May 10 2021 58 mins  
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

Episode 7 - Blighty's Batteries: A Conversation With Jon Regnart

May 03 2021 47 mins  
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

Episode 6 - Hard Rock Cafe: A Conversation With Joe Lowry

Apr 26 2021 56 mins  
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.

Episode 5 - Model Citizen: A Conversation With James Frith

Apr 18 2021 51 mins  
James Frith from BloombergNEF's energy storage arm comes by to talk about modeling battery costs and the future of the industry. He discusses why 2021 might be an unprecedented year in the battery industry, why solid state batteries look set to be even cheaper than legacy lithium ion technology, and reveals the one question he wishes people would stop asking him.

Episode 4 - Mind the Gap (between academia and industry): A Conversation With Intercalation Station

Apr 11 2021 59 mins  
In this episode, Nick and Andrew from Intercalation Station stop by to talk about bringing academics and industry together, how the SPAC attack might be an overall positive for the industry, and some of the challenges that lie between the battery lab and the dealer lot.

Episode 3 - An Ode to the Anode

Mar 28 2021 33 mins  
In this episode we look at anode materials from synthetic graphite to silicon, tackle the recent controversy about corrosion and calendar life in lithium metal anodes, and try to address some listener questions along the way.

Episode 2 - The Marvelous Mrs. Manganese

Mar 21 2021 45 mins  
In this episode, the Cell Siders team tackles the pros and cons of manganese-rich cathode materials. Then we take a look back at Tesla's Battery Day, discuss amorphous solid state electrolytes, and talk lithium ion alternatives.