How the world could unplug from China’s batteries

mBlip / December 10, 2024

International cell makers are struggling (https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/chinas-global-battery-ram-will-be-hard-stop-2024-09-06/) to compete with Chinese giants like CATL (https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/catl-earnings-slip-masks-charged-up-ambitions-2024-03-18/) . But innovations like solid-state batteries (https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/ev-tariffs-are-only-first-step-eu-china-war-2024-10-04/) could upend the industry in the not-too-distant future. In this week’s episode of The Big View podcast, QuantumScape CEO Siva Sivaram explains how.