{"id":363150,"date":"2026-10-06T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/department-of-war-drafts-ev-battery-factory-into-military-drone-duty-with-75m-grant\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:02:10","slug":"department-of-war-drafts-ev-battery-factory-into-military-drone-duty-with-75m-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/department-of-war-drafts-ev-battery-factory-into-military-drone-duty-with-75m-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of War drafts EV battery factory into military drone duty with $75M grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/10\/department-of-war-drafts-ev-battery-factory-into-military-drone-duty-with-75m-grant.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>As if to prove that there may not be money for universal childcare or nationalized healthcare but there is ALWAYS more money for war, the US Department of War has awarded Amprius a $75 million grant to convert a civilian EV battery production line to churn out high-energy-density batteries for military drones. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/10\/05\/department-of-war-drafts-ev-battery-factory-into-military-drone-duty-with-75m-grant\/ 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\/department-of-war-drafts-ev-battery-factory-into-military-drone-duty-with-75m-grant\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":363151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363150","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\/363150","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=363150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}