The great battery race: China and the U.S. compete over the future of EVs

An employee holds a full-size prototype LMR battery cell at the General Motors Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center. GM has prototyped approximately 300 full-size LMR cells as it worked with LG Energy Solution to crack the code on the chemistry. Steve Fecht for General Motors/Handout from GM

Steve Fecht for General Motors/Handout from GM

Lithium-ion batteries were invented in the United States. But years ago, as part of a push toward electric vehicles, China took the lead in mass-producing them.

Now there’s a great race underway to see who will dominate the future of EV batteries.

Chinese automakers are announcing

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