"The Car Market of Tomorrow" Clip from Interview with Ann Marie Sastry, 2009

Ann Marie Sastry wants to create an alternative to the internal combustion engine by developing a battery that can power the next generation of electric vehicles. Sastry is a professor of engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as well as CEO of a battery start-up company, Sakti3. As the Arthur F. Thurnau professor of mechanical, biomedical and materials science and engineering, she directs the research of graduate students who are studying advanced lithium-ion battery systems. Their research efforts are supporting the work of Sakti3 to develop an improved lithium-ion battery for new electric vehicles.