{"id":20479,"date":"2023-06-23T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/?p=20479"},"modified":"2023-06-23T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:26:35","slug":"rob-handfield-addresses-why-china-dominates-the-worlds-ev-supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/article\/rob-handfield-addresses-why-china-dominates-the-worlds-ev-supply-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Handfield Addresses Why China Dominates the World\u2019s EV Supply Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to the electric vehicle supply chain, researchers believe China has a running head start on the rest of the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To compete, the U.S. will need to develop an infrastructure that can support mineral refining, but this would take a regional effort, says <a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/rbhandfi\/\">Rob Handfield<\/a>, professor of operations and supply chain management at Poole College.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMexico has low-cost labor. Canada has a lot of natural resources, including\u2026lithium and copper and other minerals,\u201d Handfield says. \u201cAnd the U.S. has a lot of capital to invest in.\u201d However, producing electric vehicles will still require a global supply chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2023\/06\/20\/why-china-dominates-the-worlds-ev-supply-chain\/\">Marketplace<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:ncst\/dynamic-header -->\n<!-- wp:ncst\/default-post-header \/-->\n<!-- \/wp:ncst\/dynamic-header -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When it comes to the electric vehicle supply chain, researchers believe China has a running head start on the rest of the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To compete, the U.S. will need to develop an infrastructure that can support mineral refining, but this would take a regional effort, says <a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/rbhandfi\/\">Rob Handfield<\/a>, professor of operations and supply chain management at Poole College.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cMexico has low-cost labor. Canada has a lot of natural resources, including\u2026lithium and copper and other minerals,\u201d Handfield says. \u201cAnd the U.S. has a lot of capital to invest in.\u201d However, producing electric vehicles will still require a global supply chain.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2023\/06\/20\/why-china-dominates-the-worlds-ev-supply-chain\/\">Marketplace<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poole College professor Rob Handfield discusses the world\u2019s reliance on China for electric vehicle batteries and what the U.S. needs to gain a competitive edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"displayCategoryID\":170,\"caption\":\"\"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[170,77,81],"tags":[327,173,188],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-20479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-newswire","category-supply-chain-management","tag-in-the-news","tag-newswire","tag-supply-chain"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":170,"name":"In the News","slug":"in-the-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":170,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":393,"filter":"raw"},"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20513,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479\/revisions\/20513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20479"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=20479"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=20479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}