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Can Sodium Beat Lithium in the Battery Race? with Landon Mossburg

July 28, 2026

How do you power the AI revolution without breaking the electric grid? And why is one former Tesla executive betting that the answer isn’t lithium?

Landon Mossburg, founder and CEO of Peak Energy, shares  the technology that could redefine America’s energy future.

After helping scale Tesla’s Gigafactory and growing European battery giant Northvolt from just 17 employees to more than 6,000, Landon left the world’s biggest battery companies to build Peak Energy, a startup focused on making grid-scale energy storage cheaper, safer, and manufactured in America.

Landon explains why sodium-ion batteries—not lithium—could become the missing piece of the clean energy transition, how exploding demand from AI and hyperscale data centers is forcing a complete rethink of our electric grid, and why battery manufacturing has become a matter of both economic and national security.

If you’re interested in entrepreneurship, AI, manufacturing, climate technology, or the future of American innovation, this conversation offers an inside look at one of the most important industries of the next decade.

Learn more about Peak Energy: https://peakenergy.com

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