Business Unwrapped: clean growth

How a new breed of battery will help to power a lower-emission economy Analysis Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 10:15am Olly Mann and The Week’s Holden Frith are joined by guest expert Gabrielle Walker, a scientist, consultant and business strategist. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To get six free issues of The Week magazine and a moleskine notebook visit theweek.co.uk/offer and enter promo code: POD25 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– In this episode, we discuss: Lithium-metal batteries Batteries based on a more powerful technology - lithium metal rather than lithium ion - are about to enter production, thanks to Tokyo Metropolitan University and a spin-off company 3 Dom. They can already deliver twice the energy of existing batteries of the same size, with the promise of much more power to come - attracting interest from the world’s electric carmakers. You can subscribe to The Week Unwrapped on the Global Player, Spotify, Apple podcasts, SoundCloud or wherever you get you get your podcasts. Environment Transport Electric cars https://www.theweek.co.uk/the-week-unwrapped/107827/business-unwrapped-clean-growth #business