The car you drive years in the future might run off a battery being invented in a lab today. Companies in China and the United States are racing to perfect and scale up next-generation technologies.
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Well, our scientists are on the way over to China to help them. After being fired from our research labs.
may 25, 2025, 4:00 am • 7 1 • view
All lithium based - all combustible and flammable
may 25, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Fast forward...China wins. No doubt
may 25, 2025, 8:58 am • 0 0 • view
Zero information in the post unless I click through. Is clickbait the only kind of journalism we'll get in the future?
may 24, 2025, 8:52 pm • 1 0 • view
This is where the world is changing for the better. Awesome to see the market and science working together.
may 25, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank god Trump and MAGA are keeping intelligent international students from attending our prestigious US Universities. That should help with the US competitiveness.
may 24, 2025, 5:18 pm • 11 1 • view
Knowledge is power; therefore it's very scary to them. Worker bees are complacent.
may 24, 2025, 5:23 pm • 6 0 • view
Americans will end up using very expensive crap batteries, because the superior foreign ones will have 1000% tariffs, and American companies will have no incentive to compete because they have a captive audience.
may 24, 2025, 10:53 pm • 2 0 • view
This is a competition we want to win
may 24, 2025, 5:10 pm • 4 0 • view
Not with this current administration.
may 24, 2025, 5:11 pm • 15 0 • view
Nothing with this admin
may 24, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
We're in full reverse with these dipshits.
may 24, 2025, 6:07 pm • 5 0 • view
USA blows chunks in comparison, we’re embracing stupidity.
may 24, 2025, 9:59 pm • 3 0 • view
It's not a race if someone has already won. China is future focused. The U.S. is so far behind it thinks is ahead.
may 25, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I cant wait
may 25, 2025, 2:06 am • 1 0 • view
This is where we should focus our resources.
may 25, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
The cars we’re driving today are already battery powered.
may 24, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
There's a few more words in that sentence you missed.
may 24, 2025, 5:29 pm • 2 0 • view
*They’re a few*
may 24, 2025, 5:30 pm • 1 0 • view
*There are* a few more words in that sentence you missed.
may 24, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
With our best science minds fleeing the country due to Trump, America is likely to lose ANY AND EVERY race in innovation.
may 24, 2025, 10:24 pm • 5 0 • view
China makes 300 EV models. Big Oil will never let that happen in the U.S. www.wri.org/insights/cou....
may 25, 2025, 8:21 am • 2 0 • view
We need cars that go 800 miles on a charge not robots and autonomous driving.
may 25, 2025, 9:52 am • 0 0 • view
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may 24, 2025, 5:31 pm • 4 1 • view
Frump's administration is doing everything it can to throw support to the dinosaur fossil fuel industry. Until he's gone, not much chance of this country "scrambling" to do anything.
may 25, 2025, 1:09 pm • 0 0 • view
The future of transportation is trams and trains, not EVs. Individual cars, including EVs, are the least efficient mode of transit and another highway lane will not help with traffic.
may 25, 2025, 5:47 am • 1 0 • view
It most certainly won't have been invented in the US. We are actively destroying science here.
may 24, 2025, 6:25 pm • 2 0 • view
United States ain’t creating shit first with their dumb asses. Especially with this current administration halting any type of progress. China will smoke us as usual.
may 25, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
China will win.
may 24, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
China already beat us with batteries that charge to full in 5 minutes. We will continue to fall further and further behind, now that r&d is gutted, science is being deleted, international talent is banned and OUR talent is escaping to other countries. We’re losing hard on every single front.
may 24, 2025, 5:29 pm • 7 0 • view
So once Trump finds out he will end it in the United States. Got it.
may 25, 2025, 1:05 pm • 0 0 • view
The way things are going we’re probably better off going back to the fucking horse. Nobody can afford a fucking car.
may 25, 2025, 5:49 am • 0 0 • view
Is the US even in this race anymore?
may 24, 2025, 5:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Tldr we're losing, China is winning, we are a joke. Saved you 3 minutes
may 24, 2025, 8:36 pm • 3 0 • view
American has lost this fight.
may 25, 2025, 8:16 am • 1 0 • view
You think people are going to be able to afford cars in the future? Cute.
may 26, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
may 24, 2025, 5:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Americans lose they kick out all researchers from there colleges who are immigrants
may 25, 2025, 12:58 am • 2 0 • view
I love you, NPR. That’s all ♥️
may 24, 2025, 7:43 pm • 4 0 • view
Well, we've got a winner, then
may 24, 2025, 5:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Uh, China is way way way ahead of any EV R&D the US has going. There is no race
may 24, 2025, 5:26 pm • 11 0 • view
Yup
may 24, 2025, 9:57 pm • 0 0 • view
China and Korea, both intend to bring 300 wh/kg LFP to market *this year*
may 24, 2025, 5:55 pm • 4 0 • view
Yes, but we also need more efficient use of power!
may 24, 2025, 9:26 pm • 1 0 • view
My money is always on China
may 25, 2025, 11:22 am • 0 0 • view
The USA will lose under the current admin who has stopped all research. The USA as a world power is over.
may 25, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
government funded research is not all research there are things called battery companies
may 25, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Show me one with a board that isnt filled with people from the oil and gas companies. You know the ones that supress research into better solutions since the 80s? I'll wait.
may 25, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
If China succeeds, the tech will be shared among multiple manufacturers and the cost of cars won't significantly increase. If USA company succeeds, the tech will be hoarded and priced against demand. The first decade seeing a huge cost increase for the new battery.
may 25, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
With Trump attacking academia and dismantling education, it's a good bet next generation technologies will come for anywhere else other than the USA.
may 24, 2025, 5:20 pm • 31 1 • view
Yeah it’s kind of crazy how the same politicians who say we need to be competitive with China are dismantling the very institutions that make us competitive…
may 24, 2025, 5:22 pm • 22 0 • view
An educated populace won’t buy into their lies, so they have to dismantle academia
may 24, 2025, 7:10 pm • 5 0 • view
In the past there would have been an argument that Chinese students are leaking details but this has now devolved in what was always the core argument which is that immigration is bad and immigrants are bad.
may 24, 2025, 5:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Just China now.
may 24, 2025, 6:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Absolutely do not bet against the Chinese, especially now that scientists are leaving America in droves
may 24, 2025, 5:26 pm • 10 0 • view
Competition? More like a preseason, non-conference game where the stronger team ships in a weaker to kick its ass. There’s a possibility the guest could win but it ain’t statistically likely, especially when the guest went on a bender the night before and are hung over and puking in trash cans.
may 24, 2025, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view
China is an invention engine nowadays. When I visited China about 10 years ago, I felt that this was palpable everywhere. Sure, the countryside was a different story. But the cities felt like striving to be in the 22nd century, while the rest of the world was in the 21st. We are f*ed.
may 24, 2025, 9:57 pm • 2 0 • view
no minors allowed
may 25, 2025, 9:54 am • 0 0 • view
The GOP just forced the US to forfeit the advanced propulsion technology race. Congrats, China!
may 25, 2025, 2:40 am • 7 0 • view
there is no race i think china took this one…americans are too focused on destroying our country instead of advancing useful technology
may 25, 2025, 6:12 am • 10 0 • view
Well I guess it's good that Trump canceled all of science then
may 24, 2025, 6:04 pm • 2 0 • view
They already exist, kids.
may 24, 2025, 5:14 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m 46 years old. I’ve been hearing news about “the next big battery breakthrough!” about 3 times a year all my life. Not saying it isn’t out there, but the only thing so far that’s made batteries better is more efficient lithium mining.
may 25, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
That’s the deal
may 24, 2025, 8:01 pm • 1 0 • view
China is way ahead. Half of cars sold in China today are EVs and the US is doubling down on jacked diesel pickups.
may 24, 2025, 6:36 pm • 4 0 • view
At the rate we’re going, we just as well hand the job over to China now. STEM is DEI. Green energy is woke and higher education is a left wing plot to make people hate America. The US is not to be trusted anymore and who can blame them.
may 25, 2025, 1:16 am • 10 1 • view
And, given that scientific research is being cut completely, it will be the Chinese who finally achieve the breakthrough in this technology. The US has given up its role as the center of research and development globally
may 24, 2025, 6:34 pm • 4 0 • view
I just think we’d all be happier, healthier and better off if there were fewer cars on the road, fewer journeys made by car, better public transport and more active mobility.
may 25, 2025, 10:05 am • 1 0 • view
There's no competition. China are far ahead. US beholden to oil, to much push back against net zero.
may 25, 2025, 11:11 am • 4 0 • view
I think the billionaires have decided we can't have nice things.
may 24, 2025, 6:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Any news on the suggested tariffs if China wins this battery race?
may 24, 2025, 6:19 pm • 4 0 • view
USA will never invent while under the control of corrupt robber barons and Christofascism.
may 24, 2025, 6:48 pm • 8 1 • view
We did have a chance to compete toe to toe with China under Biden's policy. Now? We forfeited.
may 24, 2025, 5:41 pm • 6 0 • view
China is way ahead already
may 25, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Or we could have better public transportation in suburban/commuter areas
may 25, 2025, 12:25 pm • 1 0 • view
American labs are losing funding and personnel so…
may 24, 2025, 6:21 pm • 2 0 • view