{"id":533269,"date":"2022-11-01T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=533269"},"modified":"2022-11-01T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T05:28:30","slug":"why-the-us-cannot-match-chinas-industrial-heft-on-evs-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-the-us-cannot-match-chinas-industrial-heft-on-evs-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the US cannot match China&#8217;s industrial heft on EVs, batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American attempt at an industrial policy to build electric vehicles and batteries has, once again, fallen flat. The recently released list of firms selected for $2.8 billion of funding shows as much. They look more like late-stage R&amp;D projects than companies ready to scale. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced the first set of projects that will be funded by the President\u2019s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to expand domestic production of EV batteries and the grid, and \u201cfor materials and components currently imported from other countries.\u201d Instead of focusing on manufacturing \u2014 its biggest weakness \u2014 the US Department of Energy has backed firms that will process lithium, \u201cdemonstrate new approaches\u201d and recycle powerpacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American attempt at an industrial policy to build electric vehicles and batteries has, once again, fallen flat. The recently released list of firms selected for $2.8 billion of funding shows as much. They look more like late-stage R&amp;D projects than companies ready to scale. Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced the first set of projects that will be funded by the President\u2019s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to expand domestic production of EV batteries and the grid, and \u201cfor materials and components currently imported from other countries.\u201d Instead of focusing on manufacturing \u2014 its biggest weakness \u2014 the US Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}