{"id":314950,"date":"2025-02-18T04:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T04:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/this-500m-ev-battery-material-plant-is-the-first-of-its-kind-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T04:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T04:37:55","slug":"this-500m-ev-battery-material-plant-is-the-first-of-its-kind-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/this-500m-ev-battery-material-plant-is-the-first-of-its-kind-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"This $500M EV battery material plant is the first of its kind in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/this-500m-ev-battery-material-plant-is-the-first-of-its-kind-in-the-us.jpg\" \/>Japan\u2019s UBE Corporation has broken ground in Louisiana on what will be the US\u2019s only dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) plant \u2013 key components for lithium-ion batteries in EVs and battery storage. DMC is also used in semiconductors. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/02\/17\/500m-ev-battery-material-plant-is-the-first-of-its-kind-in-the-us\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/this-500m-ev-battery-material-plant-is-the-first-of-its-kind-in-the-us\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":314951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}