Steve Christensen, executive director of the Responsible Battery Coalition, an association representing battery makers, automakers and battery sellers, said he’s optimistic that these new investments in MP Materials might be part of a larger trend of increasing domestic production and processing of these key elements.
“Expanding extraction is great, and we need more of it and investments along the value chain,” Christensen said. “The metals produced from MP will lessen our dependence on China.”
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