US battery metals supply chain needed, sustainability challenges remain: industry officials

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The major limiter for US electric vehicle adoption will likely be onthe supply side for battery manufacturing metals, and while theUS is taking steps to build a domestic critical metals supply chain,challenges include opening new mines sustainably, experts said Nov. 9.“Most people know that transportation is the largest sourceof US greenhouse gas emissions and electrification of vehicles isan important way to eliminate those emissions,” Rolf Nordstrom,president, and CEO of the non-profit Great Plains Institute, said duringa webinar about building a sustainable domestic EV supply chain.