Trump’s critical mineral stock is an admission that the future is electric | TechCrunch

A label sits affixed to a lithium-ion battery.

The Trump administration announced this week that the US government will work to build an $11.7 billion stockpile of critical minerals. That’s the headline; the subtext is more interesting. The stockpiling initiative, dubbed Project Vault, is the administration’s latest attempt to secure supplies of critical minerals for American manufacturers, and what President Donald Trump says … Read more