Some topics of the article below from daver63"What surprised me, being in the EV supply chain here for a few years now is just the velocity of investment decisions and how quickly that is picked up in America this year," Trent Mell, CEO of Electra Battery Materials told
Newsweek."Of course, friendly competition among states and with Canada, and no doubt Mexico. but I look back and maybe hindsight we shouldn't be surprised because Europe did the same thing last year, during COVID."
In June, the White House released
100-day reviews of the supply chains of four critical products, including high-capacity batteries and critical minerals and materials for making them. In the reviews were several recommendations across Federal agencies to secure reliable and sustainable domestic supply.
"We've got this huge endowment of minerals here on the continent and that's the weird disconnect, as we were building a cobalt plant," Mell told
Newsweek.