Ford Motor Co. has resumed building on an entirely owned manufacturing unit within the U.S. state of Michigan which is able to make electrical car (EV) batteries utilizing know-how licensed from China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), however at a diminished dimension from authentic plans, as progress in demand for EVs lags expectations.

The U.S. auto large in February first announced the plant — referred to as BlueOval Battery Park Michigan — the place it deliberate to provide lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries utilizing CATL know-how, claiming that the partnership would make it the primary carmaker to construct each LFP batteries and nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) batteries within the U.S.