Alex Li

current: battery eng at Tesla | prev: @schwarzmanorg, @cornell

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

I think working on EVs has helped me see that everything in life is a trade off. You can always have more range or faster acceleration if you’re willing to pay for it or lose comfort. What you get is what you prioritize.

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

Fantastic visuals on the progress of battery deployment

https://t.co/1TyqR3p8nV

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

@APompliano @ztownsend Go @ztownsend !

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

“In the grasslands, people rely on the Earth and on each other. Reliance is how we develop deep relationships.

In cities people don’t want to rely on anybody. They want to rely on money” - heard on the Tibetan Plateau

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

So I see the opposite here - we have a demand problem. If we want sustainable energy, and batteries are the key to sustainable energy systems, then we need to figure out how to get more cells into real world products that people want.

[Colin Mckerracher @colinmckerrache]

We're heading for serious overcapacity in the battery market. Good news for automakers and EV buyers, but challenging times ahead for new entrants to the battery game.

More in my latest for @BloombergNEF here:
https://t.co/qOSnOPW7DH

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

With the pandemic over, I brought my parents back to Beijing and back to school. We wandered around and shared memories and occasionally saw someone familiar. There was no ceremony. But it felt like closing a narrative arc spanning decades and continents.

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

30 years ago this school changed my mom's life. It was a ladder into the middle class, it was a door to the US. 30 years later this school continues to open doors, this time for her son. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Thank you @Tsinghua_Uni @SchwarzmanOrg

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

What do we call this phenomenon where important things must all happen within the same week

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

The catch-22 of the energy transition

“Rejecting Chinese know-how would make us, ironically, more dependent on China in any future security-related rupture — because we will simply have to import from China what we never learned to make ourselves.”

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

America’s leaders want to disentangle the US economy from China’s.

They also want to develop a domestic clean-energy industry that competes with China’s.

They probably can’t do both — at least not right away. I wrote about it for The New York Times: https://t.co/anJbi4cYy9

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

San Francisco 2020. New York 2023. Must be nothing

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

#energytwitter is the interconnect queue a knowledge or a labor problem? Is the queue long because it takes a long time to analyze grids, or is the queue long because it takes a long time to build upgrades to the grid?

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

Visited my grandparents home today in Anhui. They loved planting trees and dreamed of harvesting fruits each year. At one time, they had grown an entire forest right behind their house.

Today those trees are almost all gone. Replaced by new homes and people with new dreams

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

@tttyc516 @muskanagpal 宁愿在纽约哭，也不愿在其他地方笑

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

Spring is here. The days feel like weeks, the weeks feel like days, and I realize I’m doing the work I always told myself I’d do

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

@lujainmibrahim @aliaelkattan @mozilla Amazing!

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

If you ban TikTok there will just be another TikTok

[Kevin S. Xu @kevinsxu]

At this very moment, 3 of the top 5 apps on Apple US are made by Chinese tech

We are either in a national security crisis, or this is all a big nothing burger, or DC policy elites have so little credibility among ordinary Americans it doesn’t even matter if they are right

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

@_zhoukenny @sfmuni That’s awful man glad you’re ok

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

@WPeracchio The media makes the situation so scandalous, everyone gets up in arms, and then it’s over. It’s a synthetic existential crisis

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

The uproar over “Chinese spy balloon” reminds me of Beijing’s reaction to “Pelosi visits Taiwan” and showcases just how childish both of these countries can be

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

@IEA Found in a callout: "In the case of offshore wind farms,
specialised vessels are required...Outside of China, there are currently around ten vessels that can be used to build offshore wind farms"

We need more boats!

[Alex Li @alexfieldli]

Reading the @IEA Energy Tech Perspective and stopped here. Why are we building everything but wind turbines?