'US battery output breaks records' — until the thread puts China's number next to it (fred.stlouisfed.org)
The linked page is raw data labeled 'Industrial Production: Battery,' indexed to 2017 — no value, no chemistry breakdown. As one reader noted, breaking your own record every year is what a rising line does.
The context that recolored everything: 2025 cell-production capacity at roughly USA 70 GWh, Europe 252, China 1,755. The US line is genuinely up and, in global terms, still tiny — and the materials are mined overseas anyway.
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