Is true also for Europe...
CLIP: IS THE U.S. BEHIND CHINA ON BATTERY TECHNOLOGY? 🔋
Professor Shirley Meng:
"No, we just need to stop pointing the finger at China and engage the challenge."
"When I was graduating from MIT in 2005, China was learning from us."
"So I think it's about persistance and willingness to invest time and resources. It's not far at all that we're behind."
"However...instead of looking inwards, we're always looking for reasons why we didn't do well because China, blah blah blah."
"I always say, why don't we examine inwards? What could we do better to catch-up?"
"I think the lack of patience from large companies is concerning because they all want in 2-3 years to completely turn around the ship. I think that's unrealistic."
"There's a reason why Japan, South Korea, and China are leading. Their companies and government take decades to position themselves as the world leaders."
"Can you imagine in 2040/2045 who will be the leader?"
"For me, the game is just starting. If I think I need 200 TWh, right now the whole world has 3 TWh. We are less than 2% complete!"
"For the other 98%, who are going to be the big players? Who are going to be the winners? I think there'll be many winners if people just focus on how to get things executed."
"How do we every time hit the milestones and KPIs to move forward, instead of always thinking, "What happened to China? What did we do wrong?"
"It's very frustrating for me to see so many resources and energy put in how we prevent the interaction with China instead of thinking about how we can do better; how can we push the field forward?
"The real competition is with oil and gas."
"The game is still on."
"It's a marathon, not a 100m sprint."