U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Thursday that the United States is launching a battery recycling research and development (R&D) center, aiming to reduce its reliance on foreign supply of critical minerals such as cobalt and lithium. “America’s dependence on foreign sources of critical materials undermines our energy security and national security,” Secretary Perry said in a statement. Together with the Battery Recycling R&D Center, the Department of Energy is also announcing the launch of a Lithium-Ion Battery…
