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In 2024, Ford Motors cut back production on their F -150 Lightning, the electric version of their popular pickup truck.

Sales on the Lightning had tanked, in part because it cost more than its gas -powered counterpart.

This isn't just a problem for Ford.

The average price of a new EV in the U .S is about $55 ,000, making electric cars a hard sell for most U .S consumers at a time

when EV adoption is critical for our climate goals.

Roughly 40 % of the cost to produce an electric vehicle is in the battery.

So in 2023, it was reported that Ford was looking at sites in Virginia

or Michigan for a new battery plant that could help lower its costs.

But there's a catch.

The battery technology you would use is from a company based here, in Fujian Province, China.

That company is CATL, the largest battery maker in the world.

Virginia's governor decided to kill the battery plant proposal in his state because of its links to China.

They are influenced, if not controlled, by the Chinese Communist Party.

Putting Ford's CEO on the defense.

Look, this plant is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford.

them to look elsewhere for a sight.

This battery plant got caught up in a broader trade war between US and China, a reaction to the extraordinary rise of China's electric vehicle market.

They make up over half of all EV sales globally.

and in just a few short years have brought slick and affordable electric cars to the market.

Key to this rise is the electric vehicle battery.

This part of the EV is where China has really come to dominate the global market.

So how did Chinese companies create the world's leading EV battery?

And can U .S automakers make an affordable electric car without it?

The first major reason for why China's companies were able to

develop their EV battery is due to a huge amount of government support.

Roughly 20 years ago, China was on track to become the world's largest importer of oil.

So electrifying its car fleet would help it become more energy independent.

Not to mention a growing air pollution problem in China's cities, in part due to car emissions.

believer in this.

And his sense was that Chinese companies were just never going to be able to compete on internal combustion engine technology.

That's how you get this package of policies that really supported what Chinese government defined as new energy vehicles.

Companies making the cars can get a subsidy whenever they sell a car.

We're also talking about they're getting cheap, like, land leases from the government.

They're getting cheap loans from the state -owned banks.

According billion in the form of subsidies, research spending, and tax breaks to the EV industry.

And starting around 2009, local governments also gave Chinese companies an instant market by contracting them to electrify their bus

and taxi fleets.

The city of Shenzhen's fleet of 16 ,000 buses was electrified by BYD before it became the world's largest EV company.

To get consumers on board, governments offer them generous subsidies too, along with other benefits.

Like discounts on charging, favorable parking, traffic congestion related policies that EVs get a break on.

EVs actually have a different colored license plate even, so it's very visible and so people see, "Oh, that's an EV." they get all the special treatment.

But the battery wasn't very good in the early days.

And so the Chinese government goes in and starts introducing stricter standards of batteries, saying, well, you only qualify for this credit if your battery density reaches this level.

Consumer EV sales in China exploded.

And when it did, the government did something important to protect their own battery industry.

When foreign car companies like GM and Tesla wanted to sell their EVs in China,

the government made a rule that their cars must use Chinese -made batteries for consumer subsidies.

China's central government phased out consumer subsidies in 2022, but the demand had been created.

In 2024, over half of new car sales in China were electric.

- This is like a milestone, because half is a big thing.

The majority of the people are actually prefering AVs over Gas Car Stahl.

The second way Chinese battery companies became so dominant is through the supply chain for the battery components.

The type of battery that typically goes into electric vehicles is called a lithium -ion battery.

The four main components of the battery cell are the cathode, the anode, the electrolyte solution, and a separator.

The cathode is usually packed with nickel, cobalt, and manganese.

The anode uses graphite, and the electrolyte is made up of mostly lithium salts.

Over the past several years, Chinese companies started acquiring ownership stakes in mines around the world where these minerals exist.

"So they're sure that if we control the production, then we control the price." The effect is

that Chinese companies control significant percentages of the world's supply of the minerals needed for batteries.

But where China really controls the supply chain are the steps after mining.

No matter who mines the minerals, China refines a vast majority of them.

This is the step where factories grind down raw mined materials and extract the desired mineral from it.

It's pretty polluting.

That's why you don't see that much refining happening in developed countries.

Chinese plants then also manufacture the vast majority of the four components of the EV batteries,

the cathode, the anode, the electrolyte, and the separator, sell.

Because you already had pretty developed manufacturing for batteries aimed at electronics.

So BYD is actually one of those examples.

They started by producing batteries for electronics in the 90s and then it got into producing EVs.

The U .S was never a battery manufacturing player, historically speaking, a lithium ion.

It was previously Japan and Korea.

China has now superseded both.

China's control of the battery supply chain is so encompassing that

rules say no more than half of a battery's components or minerals could be Chinese sourced to qualify for tax credits, only an estimated 20 percent of EV models qualified.

With their market dominance, Chinese companies have been able to lead the world in battery innovation.

In the past two years, Chinese companies figured out how to avoid using the two most expensive battery minerals: nickel and cobalt.

They did this by innovating on battery technology called lithium iron phosphate, or LFP.

In 2023, CATL announced an LFP battery that could power a car for 370 miles on just a 10 -minute charge.

And BYD has developed their own version of an LFP battery, too.

blade battery.

It's like a very thin, very long blade.

But basically they're saying that by using that shape, it can bring more batteries into the same space.

So in that way, like the same size of a car can travel farther.

Today, LFP batteries are a growing share of all EV batteries, and nearly all of them are manufactured in China.

But not for long.

CATL has built battery plants in Germany and has plans to build one in Hungary for the European auto market.

And Ford ended up finding a home for its CATL battery plant in the town of Marshall, Michigan.

The project has triggered a U .S.

House investigation, but if it goes through, it will be the first LFP plant in the U .S.

All of these factors have made Chinese EV batteries virtually impossible to avoid in the global transition to electric vehicles.

Was there not a viable alternative?

No, there wasn't.

LFP technology is very well developed.

The battery business is a global business.

And there were no alternatives.

There are some concerns about whether China's government support of the EV industry amounts to unfair global competition.

as well as human rights and environmental concerns associated with China's battery supply chain.

The U .S is investing their own government support to build up its battery industry.

Bloomberg estimated it would cost $82 billion for the U .S to meet their own domestic demand by 2030.

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So it might be possible in the future, but that's no help right now when we desperately need to transition to electric vehicles to wean ourselves from fossil fuels.

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And U .S automakers are struggling to give consumers affordable options.

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So for now, we'll have to decide whether our desire to keep our distance from China outweighs our goals of going electric.

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단어	발음	뜻
mineral 명사	/ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/	광물
subsidy 명사	/ˈsʌbsɪdi/	보조, 원조
lithium 명사	/ˈlɪθi.əm/	리튬
anode 명사	/ˈæn.oʊd/	양극, 애노드
cathode 명사	/ˈkæθ.oʊd/	음극, 캐소드
electrolyte 명사	/ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/	전해질
cobalt 명사	/ˈkoʊ.bɔlt/	코발트
nickel 명사	/ˈnɪk.əl/	니켈
electronics 명사	/ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/	전자공학, 일렉트로닉스
blade 명사	/bleɪd/	날
graphite 명사	/ˈɡɹæfaɪt/	석묵, 흑연
importer 명사	/ɪmˈpɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/	수입업자, 수입사
manganese 명사	/ˈmæŋ.ɡəˌniz/	망간, 망가니즈
combustion 명사	/kəmˈbʌs.t͡ʃən/	연소
believer 명사	/bɪˈlivɚ/	신도, 신자

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현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때	have brought · has really come · has now superseded
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점	was reported · are influenced · was electrified

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화자는 they're, wasn't, don't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 10번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

“th” 소리: lithium /ˈlɪθi.əm/, cathode /ˈkæθ.oʊd/
“sh”와 “zh” 소리: emission /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/, adoption /əˈdɑp.ʃən/, pollution /pəˈluʃən/
긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: electrify /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfaɪ/, electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, separator /ˈsɛpəˌɹeɪtəɹ/, electronics /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/, favourable /ˈfeɪv(ə)ɹəbəl/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

/f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: electrify /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfaɪ/, qualify /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/, refine /ɹɪˈfaɪn/, graphite /ˈɡɹæfaɪt/, phosphate /ˈfɑsfeɪt/
/v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: innovate /ˈɪn.ə.veɪt/, favourable /ˈfeɪv(ə)ɹəbəl/, believer /bɪˈlivɚ/, viable /ˈvaɪəbəl/
/r/과 /l/ 구별하기: mineral /ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/, electrify /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfaɪ/, electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, electronics /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/, favourable /ˈfeɪv(ə)ɹəbəl/

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