Resource intense manufacturing is finished in the USA. Any product with a huge market that requires a lot of material to manufacture becomes non competitive in a rush.
The Chinese are investing a hundred billion dollars in Lithium battery production. This will make marriage with their avalanche solar panel production untouchable. The USA is not the huge market you think it is. It's the rest of the world, from Brazil to Africa that's buying the larger percentage of panels from China. Our Far East buddies are stampeding to produce lithium batteries, high voltage controllers and panels by the container ship load.
Dissent in Manchuria is at an all-time low. Employment is at an old time high and the Politburo is concentrating on widening and amplification of China's influence in the far East and even larger aspirations. We have a Tiger by the tail but unfortunately for us the tail is 10 meters in length.
So lithium battery technology is becoming a lot more affordable a lot faster than you might think. Research Australian production of raw material lithium and you will begin to understand.
