China’s Lithium City Is a Front Line of the Battery Trade War
Bloomberg reports that Beijing wants a high-tech economy built on domestic supply, even if it comes at a cost.
The growl of extractors echoes across the vast mountaintop mines of Yichun in central China. A procession of heavy-duty trucks rolls down the valley to waiting refineries, where shipments of gray ore are processed into a battery material vital to the world’s energy transition — lithium. The surging popularity of electric vehicles has transformed this once threadbare area into the... ...
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