TedXMac 2017: Jack Johnson, The Importance of Perspective

Jack Johnson, The Importance of Perspective

• 1898’s was when the first car, “Gasoline Carriage”, came to west Michigan
• large automotive economic platform in West Michigan (more than 150 companies in local chamber)
• what is the next economic platform? - AES “Advanced Energy Storage”
• more products are battery powered
• limiting views - we currently think of batteries in a limited way, consider it more like an engine
• there are many types of lithium ion batteries - lithium ion phosphate
• nickel manganese cobalt
• nickel cobalt aluminum
• lithium titanium oxide
• etc.
• The market is growing to be a $40 billion and is currently growing at double digit rates
• innovation in West Michigan from many organizations and companies with research, manufacturing, and services - Michigan State University Bioeconomy Institute
• Volta Power Systems
• Midwest Energy Group
• what’s next - learn – it isn’t what you have been told – look at doing things in new ways with batteries
• invest – opportunity is everywhere – invest time and energy to look at creative applications

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