Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy Podcast
Welcome to Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, a podcast dedicated to unveiling the stories, insights, and strategies of the most influential leaders in the renewable energy sector. Our mission is to offer a platform where the voices of innovators, pioneers, and visionaries in renewable energy are amplified, sharing their journey, challenges, and triumphs with a global audience.
Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy Podcast
Breaking the Battery Bottleneck: ION Storage’s Path to Energy Freedom
Batteries are the hidden bottleneck in electrification and AI. While chips get the headlines, the energy powering our devices, vehicles, and infrastructure is what ultimately sets the pace of innovation.
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Jorge Diaz Schneider, CEO of ION Storage Systems, and Todd Crescenzo, Managing Partner & CIO at Clear Creek Investments, to explore how ION is breaking through decades of stalled promises in battery innovation.
ION’s Cornerstone program is already in the hands of customers across consumer electronics, aerospace, defense, and EVs. Unlike the traditional “hero cell” approach, ION delivers consistent, scalable prototypes that prove what is possible when you solve the swelling, safety, and form factor limitations of lithium-ion.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Why batteries are one of the biggest constraints on electrification and AI adoption
- How ION’s ceramic bilayer design enables cathode-agnostic, non-swelling, safer batteries
- Why consumer electronics are the ideal proving ground before EV adoption
- How ION moved from lab innovation to a robotic pilot line without reinventing the wheel
- Why investors see ION as a true platform technology with horizontal and vertical applications
- The misconceptions about “solid state” and what really matters in commercialization
From smart glasses to drones to EVs, ION Storage Systems is building the “Intel Inside” of the battery world, a flexible technology platform that enhances rather than replaces existing infrastructure.
Whether you are an innovator, investor, or operator in the energy transition, this conversation reveals what is next in powering the future.
Links:
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