Sam Evans

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11,513 appearances 100 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 17 Aug

Sam Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Electric Viking · Wood-Powered EV Batteries? CATL’s Massive New Bet Is Genius! · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

It's cooked in heavy, polluting, energy-intensive processes that reach up to 3000 degrees Celsius or over 5400 degrees Fahrenheit. matched

The rest is mined, which comes with its own catastrophic environmental footprint and massive supply chain bottlenecks, mostly concentrated in China. matched

With global battery demand projected to increase sixfold between this year and 2040, we cannot rely on this dirty petroleum-based graphite if we want EVs to be truly green. matched

And the first thing you can do is buy an EV that doesn't have an NMC battery. matched

That can help. matched

but but whilst lithium-ion phosphate batteries don't have as much graphite they still do use a lot of graphite actually something most people aren't aware of on the electric viking website i'll put a link in the description below we have more articles about electric cars and battery technology than any other website that i'm aware of in the world

So check that out.

Link is in the description.

And there you'll find our videos and analysis and articles about everything going on in the EV world.

Enter Carbonscape. matched

This company has developed a proprietary thermal process that takes renewable forestry byproducts, things like leftover wood chips and sawdust, and converts them into high-performance battery-grade biographite. matched

And guys, the brilliance here is twofold. matched

First, it matches the exact electrochemical performance of conventional synthetic graphite, and it's engineered to reach cost parity. matched

Second, instead of emitting massive amounts of CO2, the process is actually carbon negative. matched

Sounds insane, but it is. matched

You are literally taking carbon that a tree pulled out of the atmosphere and matched

and locking it securely inside an EV battery. matched

Isn't that interesting? matched

Plus, they aren't cutting down new forests for this. matched

They're using the millions of metric tons, or millions of short tons, for my American friends, of waste left over by the timber industry every single year. matched

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