Now it turns out in the US, there's very, very little battery production, sophisticated battery production, the kind of batteries that you need for alternative energy vehicles.
So it's not that electric cars as a whole aren't working, just Nissan's battery production.
Still, battery production has a long way to go to match the jobs being lost.
Despite Ghosn's expectations, merely increasing the volume of battery production may not bring prices low enough.
Tesla has also invested $5bn in battery production in partnership with Japan's Panasonic for its so-called Gigafactory, which will be needed to bring the cost and scale of battery production into the mass market.
State economic specialists focused on clean energy, and especially battery production for the next generation of energy-efficient vehicles.
Domestic battery production could help this by facilitating independence when supporting a country's electric grids with energy storage.
During the development of new materials for battery production the produced materials have to be evaluated.
It has since emerged under the partial ownership of U.S. battery company Ener1, which snagged $118 million in DOE funding to expand its battery production in Indiana.
Tesla Motors has two notably huge promises to fulfill: the mass market-oriented Model 3 and the Gigafactory – a large battery production facility.
This presents a challenge for Australian producers hoping to compete given the additional processing required to utilise hard-rock lithium in battery production.
