JB Straubel

"So I kind of worry not just from the recycling point of view, but I'm thinking more broadly about the supply chain. Where will all the components come to make all these batteries, to make the batteries into those cars? So the US has been extremely successful with the inflation Reduction act. We've driven hundreds of new announcements and dozens of new battery factories to the country, but the supply chain hasn't followed."

"To me, that really resonates, and it sort of brings a sense of urgency to this whole problem, which is we can't just sort of wake up one day and flip a switch and decide, oh, okay, yeah, we really should stop burning fossil fuels. Let's do that today. It's a very pervasive, very challenging problem and touches so many parts of our lives that we need to prepare and really engineer toward a solution way, way ahead of time. Right. Without that scientific or urgency, business will go at the rate that's comfortable for business, which is not fast enough."

"I mean, personally, I do think it's kind of crazy at some level. I think that we inadvertently restrict skilled immigration where we don't have some of these skills yet. We make it surprisingly hard to get trained people into the country and those that really want to help and can help with this. But this is pretty far afield from my area of expertise."

"But we have to electrify literally everything we do, every part of our economy, every part of our society has to not burn fossil fuels. It's kind of incredible when you think of that and go through your daily life and how many times that touches everything we do, but it's a massive undertaking."