Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Aimee Boulanger
Climate One
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How to Shorten the Supply Chain for Battery Minerals
According to testimony, you submitted to the US Senate, battery minerals typically travel 50,000 miles from mine to refining. How do we shorten that supply chain? Things are taken from the global south. They go to China, perhaps assembled in Japan, northern Europe, come to the US. It is almost a comical supply chain. If you drew this, it would look like a joke. But it's partly driven by the geology. These minerals are scattered around in their prevalence.
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