This week Oliver interviews Horace about his recent thoughts on the impactof lithium ion batteries on power tools and how the market and productshave developed. He also spawns a new framework: batteries we carry,batteries that carry us and batteries that carry themselves. It’s Horace athis best - riffing and letting his brain do what it does.In the meantime, make sure that you get your tickets for MicromobilityAmerica, the world’s largest summit devoted to small electric vehicles. Itreturns to the SF Bay Area on September 23, 2021 for an immersive,in-person gathering. The team are hellbent on breaking the old paradigm ofcar dependency and getting the world moving again, safely and sustainably.The event will be a jam-packed day of talks, demos, meetings, and testrides with micromobility’s top global founders, policymakers, investors,and influencers. Meet over 500 startups and established players, test thelatest technology and vehicles for the first time in nearly two years.It’ll take advantage of the beautiful California weather, doing as much aspossible outdoors and headliners include political upstart Andrew Yang,veteran tech reporter Lauren Goode, and e-scooter racing trailblazer LucasDi Grassi, and dozens more. Check it out more at micromobility.io.The sponsor of the episode is Segway Commercial, the sharing businessdivision of Segway-Ninebot. Their job is to help people and companieslaunch their own micro-mobility business. No matter the size or location ofyour scooter fleet, their mission is to make shared micro-mobility simplerand more accessible to all. They will be bringing a full line of electricvehicles to Micromobility America and encourage listeners to reserve theirtest ride. They’ll have their full range, such as Segway’s IoT-enablede-Bike and e-Moped, and their full line of shared scooters featuring latestAI technologies, including T60 & T60 lite.To RSVP your test ride, please click on this link.