China, Europe winning EV `battery arms race,' House committee told - PLANT
China and Europe are winning the “global battery arms race,” seen as a key factor in determining which economies will dominate in a decarbonized future, a parliamentary committee heard Monday. The House of Commons natural resources committee has embarked on a study of “critical minerals” in Canada – a term referring to the raw materials like lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, aluminum and copper that go into making lithium-ion batteries, the standard workhorse of the electric vehicle (EV) and energy-storage world. Canada has a large domestic supply of these minerals, witnesses told ...