Ford is building a battery plant in Marshall, Michigan, and plans to license CATL technology to produce low-cost lithium-iron batteries at the facility. That plan has been controv

Ford has a licensing agreement to manufacture electric vehicle batteries with technology from a Chinese company that's under scrutiny at the Pentagon.

The Defense Department has added dozens of Chinese firms to a list of companies that are prohibited from working with the Pentagon and defense industry due to their alleged ties with China’s military,

The US defense department is now barred from working with CATL, China’s largest battery firm, and the Chinese social media giant Tencent.