Why are Electric car batteries not made in America?
http://readitnews.com/environment/environmental-news/1411-short-supply-american-made-electric-car-batteries To find out why, you have to unlearn GM and oil company propaganda that Lithium batteries are needed for plug-in cars. The only proven EV batteries, the most successful, are Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH). NiMH is controlled by an oil company, Chevron, which sued to stop their use in plug-in cars. Chevron, the successor to Standard Oil of California, worked with GM to suppress the use of these NiMH batteries, suing Toyota to stop production of the only Electric car sold to the general public by a major auto company. HISTORICAL SKETCH The late Roger B. Smith, at the time GM’s CEO, developed the EV1 in secret, and it may have cost him his job. After the California Air Resources Board (CARB) decided to force GM to make the EV1, GM spent years sabotaging and then crushing it. The EV1 was originally desiged to run on lead-acid batteries; even though it only had 100 miles range, about 500
