{"id":155583,"date":"2023-01-16T12:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/this-china-free-lithium-battery-plant-can-power-the-next-100-years"},"modified":"2023-01-16T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:24:40","slug":"this-china-free-lithium-battery-plant-can-power-the-next-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/this-china-free-lithium-battery-plant-can-power-the-next-100-years","title":{"rendered":"This China-free lithium battery plant can power the next 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-china-free-lithium-battery-plant-can-power-the-next-100-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia has all the key critical minerals to power the next 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian-based startup, Recharge Industries Pty, is planning to build a A$300 million (US$210 million) factory that can build lithium-ion batteries that do not have materials imported from China, Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>Though Australia is the world\u2019s largest supplier of lithium, a vital battery metal, it currently sends most of its battery raw materials to be processed into components in China.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Petmal\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, China accounts for the majority of lithium-ion battery manufacturing facilities. Other nations are striving to seek alternatives to the Asian country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has all the key critical minerals to power the next 100 years. An Australian-based startup, Recharge Industries Pty, is planning to build a A$300 million (US$210 million) factory that can build lithium-ion batteries that do not have materials imported from China, Bloomberg. Though Australia is the world\u2019s largest supplier of lithium, a vital battery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}