Statement on Maintaining Tax Incentives for Domestic Battery Manufacturing
Jim Greenberger2025-05-16T17:46:04-04:00Manufacturing in the United States is in crisis. Nowhere is this crisis more acute than in the manufacture of advanced lithium batteries and their supply chain components. The loss of manufacturing in the United States has hollowed-out communities, eliminated good jobs and reduced the tax base. The loss of manufacturing is a root cause of the ballooning federal deficit. But the loss of manufacturing itself is not the crisis. The crisis is the loss of investment in manufacturing infrastructure. Manufacturing lithium batteries, like any other product, cannot be established and sustained in the United States unless investors can see a path [...]