In the third episode of our Advent special, Dr. Veronika Wright (Electrified Veronika) and Prof. Jürgen Janek (Justus Liebig University Giessen) answer the following questions:
- In the USA, the huge "Inflation Reduction Act" subsidy package has brought movement to the development of green technologies. What does the IRA mean in concrete terms for battery production and e-mobility?
- Here in Germany, a real boom has broken out around private PV systems and home storage systems. How is the acceptance of solar energy and private use in the USA?
- German car manufacturers have been late and quite slow to switch to e-mobility. If we exclude Tesla, what is the situation with American manufacturers?
- How many electric cars are on American roads and how well developed is the charging network? Surely there are big regional differences?
- East Penn Manufacturing, SK Battery America, Clarios Advanced Solutions - these are names of US battery manufacturers that probably no one has ever heard of. Apart from Tesla, do you believe that US manufacturers will have similar innovative strength in the future as Asian producers?
- What is the situation in public research? On which battery technologies is there a particular focus in the USA? Prof. Fichtner once said that a lot of hope is being placed in redox flow batteries there?
