The Navarro Express

Made in China, Paid for by America: The Battery That Got Away

October 6, 2026·10 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

American taxpayers invented a battery that could break us free from China — no lithium, no cobalt, 30-year life. So why is the first factory in Changzhou, not Kentucky? Peter Navarro on the sneak attack behind it, Beijing's IDAR playbook, and the 1980 law that could bring it home. No filler. No spin.

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