#45 Innovation Chat: Steve Levine - A Few Things - 60 Min

We discussed Steve's impressive journalistic background and then the dynamics, historical and current, in the battery and electric vehicle industries, domestically and globally. Steve LeVine is Editor of The Electric, a publication on the future of batteries, electric vehicles, and the new mobility. The Electric is owned by The Information. Sign up for the pilot: https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-electric Steve is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Previously, Steve was a foreign correspondent for eighteen years in the former Soviet Union, Pakistan and the Philippines, running a bureau for The Wall Street Journal, and before that writing for The New York Times, the Financial Times and Newsweek. In recent years, Steve conceived and launched the Future newsletter at Axios, The Mobilist, a blog published at Medium, and before that was on the launch team at Quartz, where he was Washington Correspondent. Steve has written three books. The most recent is The Powerhouse: America, China and the Great Battery War, which was long-listed for the FT-McKinsey book-of-the-year prize in 2016. In 2007, Random House published The Oil and the Glory, which chronicled the struggle for fortune and power on the Caspian Sea. BusinessWeek magazine selected it as a Top 10 book for the year. In 2008, Random House published Putin's Labyrinth, a profile of Russia through the life and death of a half-dozen Russians.