Battery Potential
Battery Potential is a retrospective on the early days of the commercialization of Li-ion batteries. Pioneers of the of Li-ion battery industry from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s are interviewed by two battery scientists: Vincent Chevrier and Kevin Eberman.
Battery Potential is produced by Cyclikal LLC.
Episodes
10 episodes
Joe Turner - K2 Energy
In this episode, we sit down with Joe Turner, Principal at Lithium Junction, for a candid and entertaining look at the boots-on-the-ground reality of lithium-ion cell manufacturing. Joe shares his journey starting at the front lines of the earl...
Yuan Gao - Pulead
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Yuan Gao, a materials scientist and executive whose career spans the foundational days of Li-ion research to the executive suites of global cathode manufacturing. Yuan shares his accidental entry into the b...
Karim Zaghib - Hydro Québec
Join us as world-renowned electrochemist Dr. Karim Zaghib shares his incredible journey through the history of lithium-ion batteries. Bridging academia and industry, Dr. Zaghib discusses his early research in Europe in the 80s and his front-row...
William Howard - Medtronic
Bill Howard brings more than five decades of hands-on experience to the history of battery development, starting at Gould National Batteries in the 1960s and finishing with Medtronic in the 2010s. Bill walks us through multiple battery chemistr...
Eric Darcy - NASA
What powers the NASA spacesuit? Dr. Eric Darcy shares the learnings of his 38 year career designing safe battery packs at NASA. Learn about how NASA came to adopt Li-ion cells and where they sourced them from. Eric explains the cons...
Karthik Ramaswami - Duracell
Why does Duracell not make Li-ion batteries? Battery expert Karthik Ramaswami joins us to tell the story of Duracell's ambitious 1990s initiative to commercialize Li-ion technology and the strategic factors that ultimately led to the pro...
Oliver Gross - Valence
Battery materials veteran Oliver Gross joins Vincent Chevrier and Kevin Eberman to trace his journey from ceramic research at the University of Toronto through the formative years of lithium-ion battery development. Oliver shares his experience...
Michel Gauthier - Phostech Lithium
LiFePO4 (LFP) pioneer Michel Gauthier joins Vincent Chevrier and Kevin Eberman to discuss the early days of battery research at Hydro-Québec focused on Li metal polymer batteries (80s-90s). How these led to identifying LFP, the carbon coating L...
Jeff Dahn - Moli Energy
World-renowned Li-ion battery scientist Jeff Dahn joins Vincent Chevrier and Kevin Eberman to discuss the early days of Moli Energy in the 1980s and 1990s. The Canadian company Moli Energy was the first company in the world to commercialize a r...