2021-12-27 13 Battery Factories To Be Built In US

There will be (at least) 13 new battery factories to be built in the US by 2025. They forgot to count Tesla’s GF Texas battery manufacturing plant.

https://electrek.co/2021/12/27/13-battery-gigafactories-coming-us-2025-ushering-new-era/

The biggest problem is to get the raw materials. That is establishing the supply chains for lithium, nickel, cobalt graphite, to name a few. And for LFP cells they will need iron and phosphate. One article said that Morocco has 70% of the world’s reserves of phosphate.

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