The Senior Technical Leader at Ford Motor Company will present a Keynote at The Battery Show in Novi, MI.

The industrial automation company, Rockwell, aims to help EV start-ups on their way to market by creating an EV Innovation Center designed to show automakers how to start and improve their production systems.

Speakers on all aspects of battery, electric and hybrid vehicle, and stationary power technologies are invited to submit their proposals to speak at The Battery Show conference, happening September 9-12. Submission deadline is March 29.

Trouble may be brewing as China’s monopoly of the critical materials needed for electric vehicles and national security may be impossible to break.