The Biden administration on Wednesday stated it would award $2.8 billion in grants for tasks to increase U.S. manufacturing of batteries for electrical automobiles and home mineral manufacturing.

The grants, that are funded by way of the president’s $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure regulation, will allow manufacturing and processing firms in no less than 12 states to extract and course of extra lithium, graphite, nickel and different battery supplies.

The announcement is a part of the administration’s broader push to transition the U.S. away from gas-powered vehicles to electrical automobiles. The transportation sector represents about one-third of planet-warming greenhouse gasoline emissions annually.

“Producing superior batteries and parts right here at house will speed up the transition away from fossil fuels to satisfy the robust demand for electrical automobiles, creating extra good-paying jobs throughout the nation,” Power Secretary Jennifer Granholm stated in an announcement.

The tasks will help growing sufficient lithium to produce about 2 million EVs per 12 months, growing sufficient graphite to produce about 1.2 million EVs per 12 months and producing sufficient nickel to produce about 400,000 EVs per 12 months, based on the Power Division.

The tasks may also set up the nation’s first large-scale business lithium electrolyte salt manufacturing facility in the usand develop an electrode binder facility that may provide 45% of the anticipated home demand for binders for EV batteries in 2030, the division stated.

Earlier this 12 months, Biden invoked the Protection Manufacturing Act to bolster U.S. manufacturing of minerals required to provide batteries for EVs and long-term vitality storage, and to cut back the nation’s dependence on international provide chains.

“At the moment, nearly all lithium, graphite, battery-grade nickel, electrolyte salt, electrode binder and iron phosphate cathode materials are produced overseas, and China controls the provision chains for a lot of of those key inputs,” the White Home stated in a reality sheet.

The White Home has set a purpose for EVs to comprise half of all new car gross sales by 2030 and has pledged to interchange its federal fleet of 600,000 vehicles and vehicles with electrical energy by 2035. The administration has additionally rolled out a plan to allocate $5 billion to states to fund EV chargers on nationwide highways.