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CATL, the little-known Chinese battery maker that has the US worried
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I love the framing "...that has the US worried", as if better battery technology isn't a win for consumers everywhere, and the only people who are 'worried' are US battery manufacturers who haven't kept up with technological advances, and the government who want to keep encouraging US companies to not use (objectively better) batteries from China.
It sounds like the 'worry' is "Our technology is years behind a political rival, and people are starting to notice".
If this is actually a bad thing for me, as a consumer, and I'm mis-reading the situation, please feel free to educate me.
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The worry is with supply chains. If an entire industry is reliant on a country who is antagonistic to outsiders, then that is an obvious cause for concern.
Exactly. And the amount of mining around the world that China owns is absurd. Pair that with 85%+ of the world's material processing for batteries being in China, the rest of the world is in a situation where essentially all batteries will have to go through China
I'm actually hoping new battery tech kills this off. My hope is aluminium batteries, they are at the point where they are making batteries on a small scale so production isn't that far off.
But aluminium has all the pros over lithium, higher storage in weight and volume, faster to charge, safer and made from the most abundant material in the ground.
Also perovskite might similarly come online soon and could kill of silicone panels.
We can only hope!
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I get what you are saying but let's not pretend for a moment China wasn't stealing battery tech, wasn't only allowing inferer batteries from China instead of abroad, wasn't manipulating markets, isn't using it geopolitical power to force smaller poorer countries into deals that futher helps it's manufacturing.
China has done loads of shady shit and the problem is the west let it happen to make money. Well the chickens are coming home to roost and the West needs to do things to even the playing field.