Jul 17, 2024 -
In 2010, the U.S. and China were on more or less level ground when it came to electric vehicles and batteries—both at the very nascent stage of building industries that both saw as key parts of the economic future. That summer, their rivalry to own that future was only starting, and Jeff Chamberlain—head of the Battery Department at Argonne National Laboratory, the hub of U.S. battery know-how—felt pretty good about U.S. chances to win. In the this Live Chat With The Electric, we welcomed Chamberlain—now the CEO of Volta Energy Technologies, a venture capital firm investing in next-gen batteries—to discuss the origin of the U.S.-China rivalry, and the battery chemistries that might carry the U.S. back on even ground with Beijing.
