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▶ 5:54 Shayle Kann Stores energy, think power walls and batteries, home batteries, batteries of buildings.
▶ 26:02 Shayle Kann So if you want to talk about BYD, like what would BYD be if Tesla hadn't been Tesla? 3 times in the scene

▶ 1:17 Stephen Lacey Tesla had just built the Roadster prototype,
▶ 1:17 Stephen Lacey Tesla had just built the Roadster prototype,
▶ 12:54 Jamie Daggett And I'm sure that that pressure was real, but other us integrate integrators like Tesla influence faces similar supply chain realities and have managed to stay afloat.
▶ 25:02 Jamie Daggett Back then, you know, thinking back to the, the two Tesla roadsters sitting in a lab that I went and saw, you know, I thought this could be really cool.

▶ 3:17 Shayle Kann You've probably heard various shades of that concept over the years from other companies, including Tesla, but Base has been taking off of late.
▶ 8:08 Shayle Kann There are others who will like stack a few power walls and get to the same place, but it's not been common. 2 times in the scene
▶ 26:05 Zach Dell I think the horror stories you hear about the solar coaster and, you know, the Sunrun and the Tesla stuff, and I've talked to all kinds of people who have worked there previously and now and whatever, like, they faced these kind of, um,…
▶ 26:30 Zach Dell 20,000 dollars lying around to go buy a solar array and a power wall and that kind of thing.

▶ 33:18 Shayle Kann It was, it's generators, that's a couple billion dollars a year, now it's batteries, power walls, whatever.
▶ 36:23 Shayle Kann I don't know who is supposed to be doing it, but certainly, you know, if Tesla made an announcement tomorrow that they're going all in on V to G, I think it would scale. 2 times in the scene

▶ 33:27 Landon Mossberg So, like, a lot of our, our team come from Tesla and SpaceX.
▶ 42:47 Shayle Kann We've got, we've got LG and Panasonic Tesla and so on.

▶ 3:25 Shayle Kann But that's why I found it interesting when Redwood Materials, which is the company founded by Tesla founder J.B. 2 times in the scene

▶ 3:36 Shayle Kann He worked at Tesla before that.
▶ 4:50 Kurt Kelty And, uh, you know, I, I, um, I ended up leading the effort at Tesla to bring Panasonic along the ride and to bring cell manufacturing back to the US.
▶ 18:22 Kurt Kelty And when EVs first came out, when we were doing this at Tesla, when I was there in 2006, we were buying cells that were basically one, one, one, one percent nickel, same percent cobalt, same percent manganese.
▶ 26:15 Kurt Kelty So, yeah, batteries, batteries are really, really hard, and I've, I've gone on, so they were kind of starting back in my, my days at Tesla, um, when Elon wanted to get into cell manufacturing, and I, I really argued that, no, we shouldn't…

▶ 5:47 Shayle Kann So the obvious examples of this being like Tesla, obviously, or you could say Nest, maybe Octopus is going to be one of these as well. 3 times in the scene
▶ 16:09 Mike Schroepfer Yeah, I would just, like, throw out the very simple, like, if you go back and do it, if the Tesla Roadster and Model S were ugly and slow,
▶ 16:09 Mike Schroepfer Yeah, I would just, like, throw out the very simple, like, if you go back and do it, if the Tesla Roadster and Model S were ugly and slow,
▶ 40:57 Nick Chaset You know, we're down on Tesla because for a variety of reasons, uh, we're down on, uh, I, I, I, you know, we're, we're down on us auto, uh, OEM's ability to scale up manufacturing.

▶ 39:19 Andy Lubershane Um, obviously it's a problem that, that some companies think that they have a, they have a good chance at solving, uh, you know, Tesla being sort of the, the most preeminent example.

▶ 35:00 Shayle Kann And, but then second, some of them doing the thing that I would have sort of anticipated, which is like the, the Tesla playbook, start high end luxury.

▶ 0:18 Ernest Scheyder Now they are sort of on a global scale, supplying some of the largest manufacturers out there, like Tesla, like Volkswagen, etc., all of whom are hungry for fresh supplies of lithium.
▶ 15:29 Ernest Scheyder And so whereas many of these companies were sort of focused on their small, relatively small patches, now they are sort of on a global scale, supplying some of the largest manufacturers out there, like Tesla, like Volkswagen, et cetera,…

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