Dan Walter
Appearances
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When Batteries Get A Face Lift, So Do Renewables
In the first sector, you roll out batteries that are just good enough for that sector, and they just meet the demands of the Sony camcorder.
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When Batteries Get A Face Lift, So Do Renewables
Because that is a growing market and that market expands, you can create more and more factories that make batteries. And as you build more factories, it becomes cheaper and the batteries become of higher quality.
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When Batteries Get A Face Lift, So Do Renewables
You get a technology development that's very rapid, driven by a group of consumers that has a very high willingness to pay.
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When Batteries Get A Face Lift, So Do Renewables
It really has been a story of consumerism, but also clever policy of countries that have realized that there's a competitive advantage in winning batteries.
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When Batteries Get A Face Lift, So Do Renewables
And that brings us to the situation today where batteries are all over the economy in cars and mopeds and buses and trucks to drive them around.
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When Batteries Get A Face Lift, So Do Renewables
Five years ago, everyone would have called us crazy for saying electric aviation can be possible. Today, I think we're seeing some really interesting first signs that, you know, 20-seater electric planes that can fly most of the flights within the US, within Europe and within China.
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When Batteries Get A Face Lift, So Do Renewables
So we all hear about like new AI breakthroughs every day, every sort of extra billion parameters on a new AI model, everyone gets super excited about. But when we talk about batteries, there are huge breakthroughs happening that are changing our energy landscape and therefore our entire economy. And no one really seems to be paying attention to it.