Is it not because of China that we have so much battery technology , The tech was already existing in 1980s but bought up by the US oil companies

Well, this newsitem on arstechnica is certainly an eye opener. It perfectly fits with the big US oil companies strategy and with the Trump administration backing them up. Makes we wonder, if China would have acknowledged the corrupt US patent system. China would have never gotten that far. Simply because US companies like the big oil companies buy up new developed technology that can threaten the sale of oil and use patent litigation to prevent other from further developing good technology to reduce global pollution.

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Michigan antitrust lawsuit says oil companies hobbled EVs and renewables

The energy industry is pressing for laws that would ban climate liability lawsuits.

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Small excerpt from text : " Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed the lawsuit last month in federal District Court against BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute. The suit, brought under federal and state antitrust laws, alleges a conspiracy to delay the transition...

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