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/

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/

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.