But spokesman Mark Truby noted that the Marshall site will be a Ford-owned plant with Ford employees. In the past, Ford has said that it believes licensing the technology from CATL and manufacturing the batteries in Michigan will support a strong U.S. manufacturing base and is preferable to importing batteries from China.

Battery maker CATL will roll out a network of 30,000 battery-swapping units in China over the next few years to unlock the true value of batteries.

The U.S. Department of Defense just added the world's largest electric vehicle battery supplier to its naughty list, according to its official release. On Monday, the DoD officially published its latest blacklist of "Chinese military companies" operating directly and indirectly in the United States and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.