As automakers proceed to grapple with a semiconductor shortage, some consultants say the following provide chain disaster for the U.S. may contain lithium-ion batteries.

As corporations like GM, Ford and a slew of start-ups ramp up their electrical automobile ambitions, present battery manufacturing within the U.S. will not be capable of sustain with demand.

Although the U.S. has a handful of large-scale battery manufacturing amenities, together with Tesla‘s Gigafactory that operates in partnership with Panasonic, a commerce dispute between two Korean battery makers, LG Chem and SK Innovation, threatens the way forward for a brand new battery manufacturing facility in Georgia.

Watch the video to be taught why the U.S. has fallen behind China and Europe, and what must occur in an effort to keep away from a bottleneck in EV manufacturing.