The battle over electric vehicle production, and access to the minerals needed to make them, will be one of the big geopolitical battles over the coming decades.
It has also become the locus of Back our independent journalism by becoming a supporting memberGet EU news that matters
Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.