What "battery industry expert" actually means
The battery industry is too broad for anyone to be an expert in all of it. A cell-materials PhD is not an expert in BESS revenue stacking. A grid-scale project developer is not an expert in cathode manufacturing. The right question isn't "is this person an expert?" but "an expert in which slice?"
The slices of expertise you need exposure to
- Cell chemistry and materials, LFP vs NMC vs sodium-ion, degradation, roadmaps
- Cell and pack engineering, formats, integration, thermal, BMS
- Manufacturing, gigafactory design, yield, cost curves
- BESS, grid services, revenue stacking, project finance
- EVs, OEM strategy, powertrain, charging
- Second life and recycling, the circular economy of batteries
- Markets, policy and finance, who wins commercially and why
Why practitioner-taught beats academic-only
Textbooks in a moving industry are out of date the day they're printed. Practitioners carry the current reality: what actually happens on the manufacturing floor, what a term sheet for a BESS project looks like this quarter, which cell chemistries OEMs are quietly designing around next.
The BatteryMBA faculty
BatteryMBA lectures are given by people currently building the industry, practitioners from Tesla, Hitachi Energy, Fluence, cell makers, gigafactory operators, developers, and funds. Each session is live and interactive, so you can ask the questions your job actually needs answered.
Meet the full faculty on our lecturers page, and browse the current lecture topics to see the shape of the programme.
Informational and educational content only. Not professional, financial, legal, or engineering advice.