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This is great. Now everyone will get serious decoupling battery supply chain from China. Maybe companies making EVs will understand the stake.

• dtquad 2y ago
  But how are they going to compete with the huge state-supported battery makers from China?
  • mitthrowaway2 2y ago
    By state-supporting our own battery makers? Or does the Chinese government have more money than we do?
    • coliveira 2y ago
      According to the government, the US has infinite amounts of money because they can always print more...
      • Sabinus 2y ago
        ..... and there is almost insatiable global demand for US dollars.
        • coliveira 2y ago
          The US is sanctioning so many countries out of the dollar system that this will make no difference.
    • okasaki 2y ago
      Will the US government sanction itself then?
    • UberFly 2y ago
      We'll have to up our slave-labor game while we're at it.
      • dark_glass 2y ago
        That's what the left is saying illegal immigrants are for
      • mitthrowaway2 2y ago
        I think battery manufacturing is pretty heavily automated, isn't it?
  • manfre 2y ago
    If batteries can't be sourced from China, there is no competition. If they can be, tariffs to balance out the subsidies.