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Pure Lithium Chairman and CEO Emilie Bodoin discusses how the company is developing commercially viable lithium metal batteries that do not need critical metals sourced from China. Bodoin joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” ——– Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube: Watch the latest full episodes of “Bloomberg…
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Divergent Targets Faster, Cheaper Defense Production
Divergent CEO Lukas Czinger says advanced manufacturing can help the Pentagon build weapons faster, cheaper and at far greater scale. Working with Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works and other defense contractors, Divergent uses technologies including 3D printing to move from engineering inputs to flight-ready hardware in under three months. He joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.”…
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@Duriel1000
June 17, 2025 at 4:28 pm
Lower price, locally sourced. Sounds too good to be true. Questions are why hasn’t anyone done this before? What hurdles were present then that aren’t present now? What other companies tried this? And why did they fail?
@colincarr196
June 17, 2025 at 6:18 pm
Great question. It hasn’t been done before at scale because prior tech couldn’t extract lithium metal directly from brine efficiently. It was slow, dirty, and unscalable. Most past efforts (like SB LiMotive, Britishvolt, even Northvolt) failed due to high costs, tech bottlenecks, or reliance on unstable foreign supply chains. What’s different now? New electrochemical processes like Pure Lithium’s Brine to Battery cut steps, cut costs, and localize production. It’s like going from whale oil to pipelines. This could be the Standard Oil of battery metals.