WardsAuto Podcast: 2024 Battery Show With McKinsey’s Ken Hoffman

The 2024 Battery Show in Detroit is drawing some 19,000 industry representatives, gathering to learn and network around new technologies all focused on the electrification of mobility.

McKinsey battery materials expert Ken Hoffman talks with WardsAuto podcast host David Kiley about some of the big issues discussed at what has become one of the auto industry’s biggest shows.

Hoffman and Kiley discuss issues including lithium-ion battery costs and what it will take to make cheaper EV batteries; global battery cell demand through 2035; diversity of battery chemistries likely to develop over the next 10 years; and Chinese OEMs’ plans for EVs with 600-mile (966-km) ranges and 10-minute charging times.