The Electric Vehicle’s next platform: Coal?

R&D on converting coal into graphite for EV batteries piques U.S. DOE, Manchin

Until now, one of the highest-profile obstructionists to the U.S. buildout of EVs and EV infrastructure has been U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, whose state is America’s leading source of coal.

Among Manchin’s biggest public complaints with the buildout is that America doesn’t have the robust supply chain for materials needed for EV batteries, in…