Can Zinc-Air Batteries Get It Done? I’ll Know More After Lunch

I’m on a train headed to New York City this afternoon for a series of meetings, the first of which will be lunch with my friends at Eos Energy Storage.  Their breakthrough in zinc-air energy storage will enable them to sell their product for $160 per kilowatt-hour — about one-third of what we’re paying today for lithium-ion.

My challenge will be to use my connections in the electric vehicle industry — my “friends of friends” — to help Eos nail down a manufacturing partner in this strategic space.  I have a few good ideas, and I’m sure I’ll leave the meeting with a dozen more, as the conversation naturally spawns new and different ways of thinking about the problem.

I really like and respect these people, and that’s half the battle; life’s too short to work with people you don’t “get on” with, as the British say.