Looking back from a 2025 vantage point, it seems incredible that the tech was allowed not just to leave US hands, but drop into the hands of one its biggest adversaries. One that, according to the Bloomberg report, controls 83 percent of all lithium-ion batterymanufacturing. Looking back from a 2025 vantage point, it seems incredible that the tech was allowed not just to leave US hands, but drop into the hands of one its biggest adversaries. One that, according to the Bloomberg report, controls 83 percent of all lithium-ion batterymanufacturing.