Lithium Startup Builds US Battery Plant That Will Skirt Tariffs

US startup Pure Lithium Corp. is working on a testing facility to build a new type of lithium battery that’s completely manufactured domestically.

The company has developed a lithium metal battery that Chief Executive Officer Emilie Bodoin says will displace lithium-ion batteries. Pure Lithium has spent the last four years doing research and development on the technology, which could be used in electric vehicles, utility-scale energy storage and other applications.

“We’re working as hard as we can to build a prototype pilot facility,” Bodoin said Tuesday in a Bloomberg Television interview. She added that the company ...