From Solid State to Sodium - THESE are the next Big Battery Breakthroughs!
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The Fully Charged Show
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🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode of the Fully Charged Show Podcast, we’re coming to you live from the Giga Stage at Everything Electric Live London!
With electric vehicles and stationary energy storage now firmly in the mainstream, what's next for battery technology? Are solid-state batteries the answer to everything, or will we need a variety of chemistries tailored to different use cases?
Hosted by Dave Borlace of @JustHaveaThink , this fascinating panel brings together four brilliant minds in the world of battery research and innovation:
🔬 Euan McTurk – Consultant Battery Electrochemist, Plug Life Television
🧪 Dr. Nuria Tapia-Ruiz – Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Imperial College London
⚙️ Aaron Wade – Gaussion
📈 Varnika Agarwal – Battery Research Analyst, Rho Motion
To explore emerging battery chemistries and their real-world potential, challenges in scaling new technologies and the evolving needs of EVs vs grid-scale storage.
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00:00 Introduction
00:34 Live from Everything Electric Live
27:06 Concluding thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charge Show podcast, where today we're bringing you something really, really special. |
| 0:11.0 | We always get requests about filming our panel discussions and talks at our live shows, and your wish today is our command, because you're about to hear one of the panels that was recorded |
| 0:21.2 | at the London Excel last week all about the future of batteries. This was hosted by the wonderful |
| 0:26.9 | Dave Ballet who you may recognize from his channel, Just Have a Think. So sit back and we hope |
| 0:32.1 | you enjoy. Right, good afternoon everybody. Thank you for coming along to this session all about batteries. |
| 0:44.3 | I hope you've been having a good day so far. I've certainly been learning a lot from these sessions. |
| 0:49.3 | We've got a wealth of knowledge here about not only the history of batteries, but the future of batteries amongst these experts. |
| 0:56.9 | So I'm looking forward to this session. |
| 0:59.3 | What I'm going to do, first of all, because they know more about each other themselves than I do, |
| 1:03.5 | I'm going to get you all like I did last time, Ewan, to introduce themselves and just tell you a little bit about their careers and what they're about. |
| 1:10.5 | So if I can start |
| 1:11.1 | with you, Ewan, please. |
| 1:12.1 | Good afternoon everyone. I'm Dr. Ewan McTurk, consultant Battery Electric Chemist from PlugLive |
| 1:16.8 | Consulting and the creator of the YouTube channel Plug Live Television. |
| 1:19.9 | Hi, I'm Vanica Grawal. I'm Senior Research Analyst at Cromotion, which is the company |
| 1:25.7 | acquired by benchmark mineral intelligence. Over the job, |
| 1:29.3 | I work on the EV, ESS, charging, recycling infrastructure and just understanding how batteries work. |
| 1:36.1 | Afternoon, everyone. I'm Nudia Taperrith. I'm an associate professor in the Department of |
| 1:41.1 | Chemistry at Imperial College, London. and I've been working on materials |
| 1:46.4 | for batteries for more than 10 years now. |
| 1:49.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for coming. My name's Aaron. I work at a startup called Gaussian and what |
| 1:55.0 | we do is we apply magnetic fields to batteries in operation and this gives up to 6x improvements |
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