The global transition to electric vehicles remains heavily reliant on China’s established battery supply chain, which currently produces approximately 75% of the world’s lithium-ion batteries. While the United States and European nations are implementing policies like the Inflation Reduction Act to incentivize domestic manufacturing and diversify mineral sourcing, they face significant challenges. These hurdles include China’s decade-long head start in infrastructure, lower production costs, and its substantial control over the refining of critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and graphite required for battery production.
- China currently manufactures about three-quarters of the global supply of lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles.
- The Chinese government has spent over a decade subsidizing its domestic battery industry to secure a dominant market position.
- Critical mineral processing for essential materials, including graphite and lithium, is heavily concentrated within Chinese facilities.
- The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act aims to reduce this reliance by offering tax credits for batteries and components sourced and assembled in North America.
- Western nations face higher labor costs, stricter environmental regulations, and longer permitting processes than their Chinese counterparts.
- Major Chinese companies like CATL and BYD currently lead the industry in both scale and technological integration.
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Bloomberg Originals please stop your nonsense videos. Do proper journalism and less propaganda. Even a 15 year old can see through the irony and dishonesty in this video.
Watching all these western media panic over every tiny thing China does is prime entertainment.
Hmm.. no mention of Teslas battery production and Li refinery
China simply had a policy that basically sad things sold in China had to be made there. Then they invited and allowed and encouraged Western companies like battery and solar panel and chip makers and automakers and all the rest to set up factories in China. Then they learned how those processes and factories worked. It's brilliant – basically a reverse Trojan horse. And then a lot of them realize they didn't need those Western companies anymore. So high tariffs alone are just one half of this and can't work on their own. The biggest mistake is in protesting and legislating and discouraging these companies from partnering and setting up factories here, simply because the underlying technology comes from China. If that technology is more advanced than our own then we should really really want to bring that here.
Everyone interested in this industry should go take a look at China battery factory tour videos, not this 7th gen wearhouse loading/offloading video.
I'm surprised they didn't cover sodium battery. Great editing by the way.
Bloomberg really hates Tesla…
Great video that should appeal to Genz as well.
If there’s one thing I learnt out of this whole video, it’s that the US and EU are just floundering in their strategies and China stands to be the one and only leader in batteries for now and the foreseeable future.
Drink a shot every time you hear a sh*tty pun 🤦🏽♂️
The whole video is another China bashing propaganda.
Honestly Bloomberg I sat through this whole video and like 90 percent of it had nothing to do with the actual topic you put in the title it was just random filler footage and dramatic music for no reason. And can we talk about the obvious bias against China for a second when Western countries dominate something like semiconductors everyone calls it fair competition and says theyre just better at it but when China masters battery technology suddenly its unfair market manipulation and all you do is scream about subsidies while ignoring the massive subsidies your own governments give to companies like Intel and TSMC and everyone else. The double standard is so obvious its honestly embarrassing at this point just call it what it is.
The recycling in Norway is such a silly idea. 200 types of batteries require 200 SOP and the disassembling by expensive workers. Moving it to China, the cost will be much less. China is doing battery recycling as well, with a far more clever approach. They assembled the used battery which still have 70% of original capacity to become energy storage for electricity generated by wind and solar. In these applications, the power density is not important.
I can't believe this propaganda piece is masquerading as journalism. Pathetic.
China: working to solve it's pollution , jobs , economic growth and imported fossils reliance. DW/the west: working to beat china
I support China in every way as opposed to the West.
Why would any normal human being be sad about China grip on EV
This is the best thing happened to the world to stop the terrorists from the west
I don’t have a lot of confidence in GM
35 years ago the consensus among engineering specialists?…
…was that hybrids would pave the way for EVs.
In particular energy infrastructure.
At that time battery technology was not great.
But major advancement was just a matter of time.
The idea to focus on hybrids was in part to allow for a more smooth energy transition.
One that would NOT DISRUPT the worlds environment and economies.
China which was very weak on Method (the know-how) now has gained more than most.
Man, Material, Machine, Money, Market, Means and….Method. China now has it all.
Europe and America? More like Morons.
America looks forward in its rear-view while Europe moves sideways.
Each side-stepped their own science, institutions and industry for political gain at economic loss.
Great video. Great insight and illustration.
Oh, and N. Tesla did not like being called Tezla.
Let me guess…human rights and freedom stuff again. Right?
Bloomberg Originals is a China hate factory. According to Bloomberg, everything from China is just bad, bad and bad.
As someone who follows Chinese BEVs for 6 years every day I can confirm: you have little knowledge about China's BEVs, batteries, yes, its entire industries.
8:28 A series of cars capable of 5 minute charging from 10% to 70% while 9 minutes from 10% to 97% are available a month before this video released are rolling out fast
14:55 while the narrative is widely accepted, the Chinese car companies were only skeleton back in the ICE ages. It was the basis of car manufacturing + the EV innovation that brings China to what they have today. The best example of JV, however, is HSR, where the actually learned quite a lot of things
This comment section is a joke. The piece is pretty even handed, and Bloomberg's core audience are finance and business people. Some of them hold long positions in Chinese EV and battery companies. To think this is a "hit piece" on China is just your ideology speaking, not what actually is being said in the video. (the current landscape > the history of EV development > who's trying to change the status quo and what they're doing)
At least the Stolen Lands of America are now admitting that they want to destroy everything.
Gov controlled report
Great video. The sound design and this video is top-notch.
Most pointless video to change narrative 😂😂
how can u talk about EV, battery, lithium without even mentioning TESLA, they refine their own Lithium, made their own battery and assemble their own EV all in US of A. HUGE THANKS Bloomberg for neglecting all of that
China wasn't trying to dominate the world on the EV markets. They were forced to give up on ICE because they know US is trying to control the world's oil supply. US didn't built so many military bases in Middle East for no reason.
why you need to disrupt? shows how 3rd rate this nation is