US lawmaker scrutinizes Ford battery partnership with Chinese company CATL

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Republican chair of a U.S. House committee is scrutinizing Ford's plan to repurpose its existing U.S. battery manufacturing ​facilities to produce lithium iron phosphate cells and grid-scale energy storage systems as ‌part of its partnership with Chinese battery giant CATL. In a letter to Ford CEO Jim Farley, Representative John ‌Moolenaar raised concerns about the automaker’s plans to build data center batteries with technology from CATL and asked ...