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Form Energy's manufacturing breakthrough
- ▶ 0:50 Lara Pierpoint Matteo Jaramillo has been in the battery industry for over 20 years, including seven years building Tesla's storage business from the ground up.
- ▶ 3:45 Mateo Jaramillo I was at Tesla working exclusively on lithium-ion for seven plus years.
This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington
- ▶ 29:21 Shomik Dutta He was his own spokesperson for Tesla.
- ▶ 45:35 Shomik Dutta And so if you have one cell in an old Tesla battery that is faulty, they will dynamically rebalance away from that cell such that the pack and system can operate as promised.
The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough
- ▶ 46:30 Rick Needham We have a bunch of people from SpaceX and Tesla, and like, we've built things that no one thought was possible.
The scrappy beginning of Tesla’s energy business
- ▶ 0:22 Drew Baglino to, you know, Tesla can do this so well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:52 Lara Pierpoint In 2013, Drew Baglino was a systems engineer at Tesla. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:56 Lara Pierpoint He'd been at the company for about seven years and was helping to develop its first commercial sedan, the Model S. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23 Lara Pierpoint That year, Drew went to a bachelor party at that off-grid house, and without fully thinking through how he was going to charge his Tesla Roadster to get back home, he drove it there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:10 Elon Musk This is a big step above the Powerwall One. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:41 Drew Baglino I became the lead engineer, built the energy engineering team, and developed and launched Powerwall one, Powerwall two, three, Powerpack one, two, and, and then Megapack one, and Megapack two, and it was tough.
- ▶ 2:41 Drew Baglino I became the lead engineer, built the energy engineering team, and developed and launched Powerwall one, Powerwall two, three, Powerpack one, two, and, and then Megapack one, and Megapack two, and it was tough.
- ▶ 3:49 Lara Pierpoint Former senior vice president of powertrain and energy at Tesla, about building a storage product that would break open the market for home batteries.
- ▶ 4:26 Lara Pierpoint In the early 2010, Tesla started exploring stationary storage. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:39 Drew Baglino Tesla had done a very early, we call it like, it doesn't even have a name, it was called, you could call it like Powerwall Zero.
- ▶ 4:44 Drew Baglino It was like a sort of cobbled together Model S battery module.
- ▶ 7:19 Lara Pierpoint Tesla launched Powerwall One in April of 2015. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:19 Lara Pierpoint Tesla launched Powerwall One in April of 2015. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:27 Lara Pierpoint Also during this time, the company had announced a new EV, the Model X, and was working on what would become its best-selling car, the Model Three. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:27 Lara Pierpoint Also during this time, the company had announced a new EV, the Model X, and was working on what would become its best-selling car, the Model Three.
- ▶ 9:01 Drew Baglino I and Powerpack II, Powerwall II programs. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:19 Drew Baglino Another big one that was important to Megapack One's success was actually the PG&E Moss Landing installation.
- ▶ 12:39 Drew Baglino It was also the same time that the hundred kilowatt hour module for Model S and X was being developed, and the module for Model Three.
- ▶ 12:39 Drew Baglino It was also the same time that the hundred kilowatt hour module for Model S and X was being developed, and the module for Model Three.
- ▶ 12:39 Drew Baglino It was also the same time that the hundred kilowatt hour module for Model S and X was being developed, and the module for Model Three.
- ▶ 13:20 Drew Baglino You know, there were some strategic moves to, to partner with some awesome automation houses that, that helped Tesla out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:52 Lara Pierpoint And it seems like, I mean, so everybody was kind of okay with this, and they were interested in working on different things at different times, and it worked out pretty fluidly, or were there any moments where you were like, I can't get… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:55 Lara Pierpoint At this point, Drew was an executive at the company, serving as the vice president of technology at Tesla Energy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:55 Lara Pierpoint At this point, Drew was an executive at the company, serving as the vice president of technology at Tesla Energy.
- ▶ 16:53 Drew Baglino You know, both Tesla and Panasonic had to help each other bring labor into the area. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:51 Drew Baglino The first supercharger, it's sometimes called, like, V-II or V-I, you know, the chargers in the supercharger are the onboard charger for Model S. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:51 Drew Baglino The first supercharger, it's sometimes called, like, V-II or V-I, you know, the chargers in the supercharger are the onboard charger for Model S.
- ▶ 23:09 Drew Baglino And again, as I was talking about, like early Powerwall had like the Model S battery module in it, you know, and I think that is the way to be efficient with resources is like, how do you be strategic with reuse?
- ▶ 23:57 Drew Baglino You know, and when you look at, like, Optimus as an example, which is the, the robot program at, at Tesla, like, why is Optimus going quickly at Tesla?
- ▶ 23:57 Drew Baglino You know, and when you look at, like, Optimus as an example, which is the, the robot program at, at Tesla, like, why is Optimus going quickly at Tesla? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:25 Lara Pierpoint And so, as you built that, you fought a whole lot of battles, and so you've mentioned some of these, that, like, you know, the learnings from the Powerwall One and the initial scrappiness, challenges with cell supply, needing to sort of…
- ▶ 24:25 Lara Pierpoint And so, as you built that, you fought a whole lot of battles, and so you've mentioned some of these, that, like, you know, the learnings from the Powerwall One and the initial scrappiness, challenges with cell supply, needing to sort of… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:04 Drew Baglino And when we saw the channel partners on the direct business, like basically to the end customer, you know, either directly through, through Tesla Solar or through partners like Sunrun, Sunova and others.
- ▶ 26:18 Drew Baglino They don't even know that Tesla makes it.
- ▶ 27:11 Drew Baglino I mean, it definitely was within 24 hours of the, of the presentation on stage when we sort of announced Powerwall one and Powerpack two. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:11 Drew Baglino And while Tesla was public at this point, you know, 2014 to 2019, it certainly wasn't stably profitable and people knew what they were signing up for. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:36 Lara Pierpoint His interaction with what brought the power wall and the energy side to be on this and where things are going now.
- ▶ 31:43 Drew Baglino Yeah, hands down, the energy business of Tesla could not have gotten to where it, it got to without, uh, Elon's input, um, both as a major advocate in the early days and as a strong force for acceleration on doing big projects like the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:11 Lara Pierpoint Drew Baglino is the former senior vice president of powertrain and energy at Tesla.
Pioneering one of the first IRA tax credit transfers
- ▶ 0:36 Lara Pierpoint Last December, Chris Taylor was drinking a grid store electric lager surrounded by 44 Tesla Megapack, two XL battery systems.
- ▶ 5:34 Lara Pierpoint They had a contract with the utility SoCal Edison to sell the electricity for resource adequacy, and they had a contract with Tesla to supply the batteries.
- ▶ 7:12 unnamed speaker I mean, that's one other thing back to the choice of Tesla I should have mentioned is that Tesla was clearly a, um, a manufacturer that is well-capitalized, well-known, um, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:02 Chris Taylor I think we were installing a mega pack every two and a half minutes at the peak of construction.
- ▶ 17:58 Chris Taylor So we kind of went straight to the biggest of the big boys, and, um, I think again the Goldman Sachs backing, the SoCal Ed contract, and the Tesla equipment probably helped get them interested in doing that deal, but we were able to…
Our final episode: The top stories of 2024 so far
- ▶ 9:39 Stephen Lacey Former Tesla VP Drew Baglino just said on the Catalyst podcast recently that it wouldn't be as dramatic as people think because of improvements in chip efficiency, co-located renewable strategies, etc.
Tesla’s extremely hardcore pivot
- ▶ 0:37 Stephen Lacey And one topic that is unsurprisingly dominating his coverage of late, Tesla. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07 Stephen Lacey The origin of Tesla was rooted in a couple things. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:13 Stephen Lacey That model's called the Model Two. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:15 Stephen Lacey Musk also laid off the entire supercharger team, and now he's putting all his attention on an autonomous robo-taxi.
- ▶ 4:30 Stephen Lacey This week, a conversation with Steve Levine from The Information on what's happening inside Tesla. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:51 Stephen Lacey If there's any starting point for the current Tesla turmoil, it might be February 28th when Elon posted, tonight we radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster, and he said the car would hit zero to 60 in less than a… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:51 Stephen Lacey If there's any starting point for the current Tesla turmoil, it might be February 28th when Elon posted, tonight we radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster, and he said the car would hit zero to 60 in less than a… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:10 Stephen Lacey But that same week, Elon made an impulsive decision that would set Tesla on this radically different path from what investors had previously expected, one that would steer the company away from the more affordable model, the Model Two, to… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:10 Stephen Lacey But that same week, Elon made an impulsive decision that would set Tesla on this radically different path from what investors had previously expected, one that would steer the company away from the more affordable model, the Model Two, to… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:10 Stephen Lacey But that same week, Elon made an impulsive decision that would set Tesla on this radically different path from what investors had previously expected, one that would steer the company away from the more affordable model, the Model Two, to… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:25 Steve LeVine Where it is at right, right now, which is in the design studio, uh, just, just at the very first stages of being developed, and he saw the Roadster.
- ▶ 12:53 Steve LeVine The Model Three, the Model Y, these cost in the mid-thirties and into the forties when, you know, when you're adding other features to them, and suddenly you're saying, uh, you know, we want, we want a car that's 40 or 50% less, so you…
- ▶ 12:53 Steve LeVine The Model Three, the Model Y, these cost in the mid-thirties and into the forties when, you know, when you're adding other features to them, and suddenly you're saying, uh, you know, we want, we want a car that's 40 or 50% less, so you…
- ▶ 15:47 Stephen Lacey Tesla itself is under federal investigation for securities and wire fraud for, uh, for 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:14 Steve LeVine Musk, beyond what he, what, what he said originally, 14 years ago, what he said on battery day, what he said last year, uh, and in the shareholders meeting, and in all of those places, he was very enthusiastic about the Model Two, and, you… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:40 Steve LeVine Dojo, the chip, and, uh, and, and Optimus
- ▶ 19:40 Steve LeVine Dojo, the chip, and, uh, and, and Optimus
- ▶ 20:41 Stephen Lacey An email to the supercharger team at that time saying must believe their work was critical, which you reported on. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:56 Steve LeVine The, this is the supercharger team, especially those are the crown jewels of Tesla. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:25 Steve LeVine But all of those times, right, there's the Model S, there's the Model Three, there's production hell, there's the Model Y, uh, I'm running out of money, calling all his friends, you know, before the midnight, the midnight deadlines, uh,…
- ▶ 23:25 Steve LeVine But all of those times, right, there's the Model S, there's the Model Three, there's production hell, there's the Model Y, uh, I'm running out of money, calling all his friends, you know, before the midnight, the midnight deadlines, uh,…
- ▶ 23:25 Steve LeVine But all of those times, right, there's the Model S, there's the Model Three, there's production hell, there's the Model Y, uh, I'm running out of money, calling all his friends, you know, before the midnight, the midnight deadlines, uh,…
- ▶ 25:04 Steve LeVine It's those kind of people, uh, who have bought, uh, who, who have bought the first Teslas, the first electric cars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 Steve LeVine And, uh, and so Musk is seeing that, okay, he, he's going to come out with his 25,000 dollar car, but it's unlike when he came out with the Model Three or the Model Y. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 Steve LeVine And, uh, and so Musk is seeing that, okay, he, he's going to come out with his 25,000 dollar car, but it's unlike when he came out with the Model Three or the Model Y.
- ▶ 26:41 Steve LeVine And, uh, and so Musk is seeing that, okay, he, he's going to come out with his 25,000 dollar car, but it's unlike when he came out with the Model Three or the Model Y.
- ▶ 26:57 Steve LeVine The Model S, the same thing.
- ▶ 26:59 Steve LeVine Roadster, the same thing.
- ▶ 27:54 Stephen Lacey What are people saying about him inside the company as he's making some of these decisions? 4 times in the scene
The news quiz episode!
- ▶ 42:00 Stephen Lacey On Tesla's Q-one disappointing earnings call, Elon Musk said the company was what or where? 2 times in the scene
Political Climate: Is the IRA under political threat?
- ▶ 18:29 Brandon Hurlbut Of starting and incubating and then catalyzing entire industries, like we did with the loan program office and Tesla. 2 times in the scene
The rise of heat batteries
- ▶ 25:01 John O'Donnell Tesla released an analysis last year that said that the world is going to have twice as much installed heat battery capacity as grid battery capacity of all kinds combined because of the size of this 2 times in the scene
Inside Apple’s failed car program
- ▶ 1:52 Stephen Lacey Tesla was just starting to scale mass market production and making electric vehicles attractive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:52 Stephen Lacey We'll explore the vision, the technological challenges, and ask, what if Apple had just acquired Tesla from the start? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:08 Mark Gurman Initially, the, the first part of the car project was examining what it would take to acquire Tesla, integrate Tesla, and take Tesla to a new level under Apple ownership. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:51 Stephen Lacey Uh, what do you think would have happened if Apple had actually acquired Tesla, which at the time was worth one 20th of what it is today? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:13 Mark Gurman Would it be something like level two, like you see in a Tesla?
- ▶ 13:29 Mark Gurman Another had doors like in the Tesla Model X, the gullwing type doors.
- ▶ 13:29 Mark Gurman Another had doors like in the Tesla Model X, the gullwing type doors.
- ▶ 16:57 Mark Gurman This was in the tail end of, of 18, and he, prior to that, was running the Model Three in all car hardware engineering at Tesla. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:57 Mark Gurman This was in the tail end of, of 18, and he, prior to that, was running the Model Three in all car hardware engineering at Tesla. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:06 Mark Gurman Well, it felt like they had come to some sort of solution, which is to build more of a Tesla Me Too product, which is to build something that would require less advanced autonomy, something in the level two plus three range, and they… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:29 Stephen Lacey I mean, it was a miracle that Tesla pulled it off as they were going through production hell with the Model Three. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:29 Stephen Lacey I mean, it was a miracle that Tesla pulled it off as they were going through production hell with the Model Three.
The right way to recycle batteries [partner content]
- ▶ 5:24 Steve Cotton Um, and that's what started as Tesla's Gigafactory One that's right here by Aqua Metals in Tahoe, Reno, Nevada, uh, and with its original, um, Gigafactory.
Virtual power plants: the ‘sandwich’ for the grid
- ▶ 18:16 Jen Downing You stop at a, you know, Tesla supercharger on a road trip, you're not going to want to wait an hour because there's a grid event.
US power demand is set to boom. How will we meet it?
- ▶ 47:54 Shalini Ramanathan Um, there was a, a cold snap, you know, earlier, earlier this month, and, uh, there were a lot of news stories about, you know, Tesla chargers not working and people waiting in line to charge their cars or having to charge much more often…
How to triple renewables by 2030
- ▶ 40:12 Katherine Hamilton I was in a Tesla Uber the other day, and the guy said, uh, there was a storm in all the planes at Dulles Airport were grounded, and there was a family that needed an Uber, and they needed to get to New York City that night for an event. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:06 Stephen Lacey Of course, going back to politics, we're just riding this carousel of outrage all the time, and every, every time we go around, there's some new thing to get mad at, mad about, and point at, and this plays out continually with clean energy… 2 times in the scene
AI in the real world: Solar forecasting, EVs, and virtual power plants
- ▶ 16:54 Apoorv Bhargava And so, you might have incredibly high-quality data coming from a Tesla, and you might have incredibly low-quality data coming from somewhere else, and you may have completely ish, ok data coming out of your smart meter.
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