US #BatteryBelt (swell #buzzword) that will stretch from Michigan to Georgia through Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee will be welcome news in many communities.

"An obvious difference between building batteries and building software is that batteries for electric vehicles and other large-scale industrial uses can weigh more than 1,000 pounds. The production and warehousing requirements for that kind of equipment rules out urban knowledge centers — the economic winners of the past 40 years — as the focus for this new wave of industrialization."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-29/us-battery-belt-will-be-a-new-kind-of-job-magnet

#Economy #Bloomberg #BatteryBelt #EVs