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US Faces Serious EV Supply Chain Problems
gCaptain ^ | March 28, 2023 | Yvonne Yue Li

Posted on 03/28/2023 4:18:32 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Seven months after President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, the magnitude of the challenge it will be for the US to loosen China’s grip on the electric vehicle supply chain — a key objective of the legislation — is coming into sharper relief.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: automotive; supply
Ford, the top US car producer, confirmed last month that it will tap technology from China’s battery-making behemoth CATL for a $3.5 billion plant it’s building in Michigan.

Tesla is expecting the base version of its cheapest car, the Model 3, to lose the entirety of the $7,500 tax credit it’s been eligible for because its cells come from China

The group — which goes by SAFE, standing for Securing America’s Future Energy — argues that China has been winning out in part because of failures to account for the toll that the extraction and processing of critical minerals including lithium, nickel and cobalt are taking on workers and the environment, often in lower-income countries.

For examples, SAFE points to how China pulled far ahead of the US in producing the rare earths used in EV motors,

The US was the top producer of rare earth elements in the 1990s, until Chinese suppliers flooded the market with lower-cost supply.


The whole electric vehicle industry is controlled by China. Biden and Newsome are at China's control.

1 posted on 03/28/2023 4:18:32 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

No one wants evs


2 posted on 03/28/2023 4:23:40 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: yldstrk

When they tax gasoline and ICE vehicles out of reach for most middle class people, they will embrace EVs.


3 posted on 03/28/2023 4:25:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: yldstrk

Ford set to report losses on EVs. Awwww!


4 posted on 03/28/2023 4:27:04 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: dfwgator

you would get better mileage with a bicyle, they go further with leg power.


5 posted on 03/28/2023 4:28:22 PM PDT by Ronald77
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To: artichokegrower

Drill Brandon, drill.


6 posted on 03/28/2023 4:32:37 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: artichokegrower

Ugh look what these climate hucksters have done to us.


7 posted on 03/28/2023 4:43:02 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: artichokegrower

Ugh look what these climate hucksters have done to us.


8 posted on 03/28/2023 4:43:03 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: dfwgator
When they tax gasoline and ICE vehicles out of reach for most middle class people, they will embrace EVs.

J Effin K said today that new Executive Orders are in the works to fix the climate. I suspect they will tax or outright outlaw gasoline and ICE cars. What you suggested is in the works. Thank you, 81 million.

9 posted on 03/28/2023 4:55:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: gibsonguy
"Ugh look what these climate hucksters have done to us.

THAT is worth repeating.......

This whole climate scam is the New World Order (and their $$$$$ invested) that CAUSED the anti-fossil fuel (eliminate competition) laws to be implemented, by stealing the 2020 Election (and 2022), strategically.

The technology for EV's is not here yet for mass production in total, and, with the imports of EVERYTHING from China coming through the CA ports with no diesel-fueled trucks allowed, will in NO WAY allow for necessary imports to develop enough EV's. We are headed for horse-and-buggy transportation, in the VERY near future, coupled with dumping taxpayer money to subsidize an economically-non-competitive product. Without taxpayer subsidies, the climate hoax collapses under its own weight.

10 posted on 03/28/2023 5:57:43 PM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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The US was the top producer of rare earth elements in the 1990s, until Chinese suppliers flooded the market with lower-cost supply Bill Clinton shut down US rare earth production for campaign contributions from his Chinese an Indonesian friends.
11 posted on 03/29/2023 3:57:24 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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