The Hidden Bottleneck in America's Battery Race

Source: International Business Times

Lakshya Agrawal The United States is spending billions to build a domestic battery supply chain, and most of the public conversation focuses on things that can be photographed: new plants in Nevada, lithium mines in the West, ribbon-cuttings for cell factories in the South. But the harder problem, according to Lakshya Agrawal, sits upstream of any of that. It's a finance problem, and the companies that figure it out will decide how the next decade of the industry plays out.