2022 was a big year for EV battery plants in the U.S. How big? $73 billion big

These days, billion-dollar plants to make the massive batteries that power electric vehicles are announced so often that — even if you follow the auto industry — it's hard to keep track of them all.

Did you hear about the one from KORE Power in Arizona? Samsung and Stellantis in Indiana? The Chinese project in Michigan, the Norwegian one in Georgia, the Japanese one in South Carolina?

Or, if you aren't impressed by a billion dollars any more, how about the $5 billion electric vehicle and battery project in Georgia? No,...