Best battery podcasts in 2026: 16 shows for battery industry professionals

Interviews with the people running battery companies, produced by Battery Associates. More than 160 episodes cover cell manufacturing, gigafactories, EVs, grid storage, recycling and raw materials. Recent guests include Frank Blome (CEO, PowerCo), Yann Vincent (CEO, ACC), Siyu Huang (CEO, Factorial Energy), Matt Shen (General Manager, CATL Europe) and Vikram Handa (Epsilon Advanced Materials). Full transcripts are published on each episode page.

NAATBatt International is the US battery industry trade association, and BattChatt is its interview series with the companies building North American cell and materials capacity. Useful if you follow US cell manufacturing and want the association's read on policy rather than a vendor's.

Hiring, skills and the talent shortage in battery and electrification, hosted by Jamie Sheard of the recruitment firm Strativ Group. Guests skew toward hiring managers, which is the point if you are trying to staff a plant or plan a career move.

Mike Norton and James Lang talk to engineers, founders and researchers across the US battery sector, covering materials, manufacturing, testing, policy and recycling.

Patrick von Rosen and Lennart Peters interview European battery scientists, produced by the Helmholtz Institute Ulm and CELEST, the Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Ulm and Karlsruhe. The closest thing to an academic seminar in podcast form, and the best single source on where European lab work is heading. Pairs well with our coverage of the next chemistry.

Battery scientists Vincent Chevrier and Kevin Eberman interview the people who commercialised lithium-ion in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. It is an oral history of decisions that still constrain cell design today, and nobody else is recording it. Episodes run long.

Technical conversations with academics and industry researchers on raw materials, characterisation and cell design. Topics have included X-ray analysis of electrodes, wireless battery management systems and lamination for large-format packs. Depth varies with the guest, and the strong episodes are very strong.

Johannes Roessner covers battery handling, safety and test strategy in short episodes aimed at people who do the work. Practical rather than theoretical: what to test, in what order, and what goes wrong.

Joe Lowry, known as Mr Lithium, has spent more than 30 years in the lithium industry and runs the advisory firm Global Lithium LLC. Long-form conversations with lithium and battery CEOs, plus solo episodes on pricing and China. Downloaded in 181 countries. Opinionated on price, which is the reason to listen. Related reading: raw materials and mining.

Matt Fernley and Cormac O'Laoire run a monthly round-up of battery materials news from the analyst side: cathode and anode feedstocks, pricing, project announcements and what they mean for cell cost. Monthly rather than weekly, so it works as a catch-up rather than a news feed.

Tu Le and Lei Xing dissect the week's news from the Chinese EV, battery, chip and mobility sectors. Not a battery-only show, but most global cell volume decisions are made in China, and this is the fastest weekly read on them in English.

Weekly conversations on electricity markets, BESS revenue, project finance and grid reliability, hosted by Ed Porter, Modo Energy's director for Australia and Europe. Coverage spans Great Britain, Germany, Spain, ERCOT, CAISO and Australia's NEM. If you need to understand what a battery actually earns, start here. See also our episodes on storage and the grid.

Energy partner Bill Derasmo of Troutman Pepper Locke interviews storage developers, operators and policy people. Nearly 90 episodes. The legal and contracting angle that engineering-led shows skip: offtake structures, permitting, interconnection disputes.

Gerard Reid and Laurent Segalen, two energy investment bankers, on the technologies, business models and policy reshaping power. Reid is a founding partner of Alexa Capital; Segalen chairs energy panels across the European circuit. Batteries and storage come up constantly, always with the numbers interrogated. The best show on this list for capital allocation questions, and relevant to European policy and money.

Jerzy Kuźmiński walks through the full BESS project lifecycle: development, permitting, EPC, commissioning, optimisation and O&M, with real costs and common investor mistakes. Framed around the Polish market, so the specifics are local, but the project mechanics transfer.

Jeff Lynch and Mike Muldoon have published close to 200 weekly episodes explaining how batteries work and where they show up. Less technical than the research shows and less commercial than the market ones, which makes it the easiest entry point if the industry is new to you.