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Raj DasGupta

Chief Executive Officer, Electrovaya Inc.

Search every verified Raj DasGupta interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Raj Dasgupta, CEO of Electrovaya, appeared on the podcast Green Giants: Titans of Clean Energy on October 9, 2026, to discuss the company's approach to battery technology for data centers. He described Electrovaya's strategy as deliberately avoiding competition on cost per kilowatt-hour, stating that the company would not beat Chinese manufacturers on that metric. Instead, he positioned Electrovaya's focus on applications like data centers, where power demand fluctuates sharply, comparing a data center's electricity usage to a car driving up and down a hilly road. He said the company's batteries are designed to handle these peaks and troughs more efficiently, allowing customers to use fewer batteries than with conventional four-hour systems. Dasgupta also discussed combining uninterruptible power supply (UPS) functions with energy storage, noting that current UPS systems are rarely used and typically provide only four minutes of backup power. He argued that integrating UPS with energy storage would allow for doing more with less, benefiting overall site efficiency. His remarks highlighted Electrovaya's focus on power density, reliability, and long life in its battery solutions, as well as the broader goal of bringing battery manufacturing back to North America.

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“The way we looked at it is, hey, we don't want to compete on dollars per kilowatt hour. We'll never beat the Chinese at that. But if you look at outside of renewables, if you look at data centers in particular, and that's what is topical today, a data center is sort of like a large vehicle. It uses a lot of power. Think of the data center as a car. It's going up and down a hilly road. So its power demand goes up as i”

“I don't view a full pure solid state cell as being practical. You have challenges with regards to the cathode especially in terms of reaching further into the structure.”

“We decided to build this expansion in Western New York before most of this recent volatility began. So the decision today can be seen as somewhat precient and it is working out to our favor.”

“The applications that our batteries are going into would have used, let's say internal combustion for 22 23 hours a day and now they're being electrified. So significantly higher impact on the electrification is what we're enabling with our technology.”

“We recently announced an approved loan from the US Export Import Bank of $51 million which will really take care of the funding of all the engineering and construction for our Jamestown facility. So that's going to provide domestic manufacturing, it'll likely lead to improved margins and also probably most importantly of course improve expanded capacity.”

“We went through a big transition in 2018 we closed down the facility in Germany it was a major bet we essentially bet the company and the company almost didn't make it at the time but we did and here we are so we're very focused now on heavy duty Vehicles.”

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