Powering The Future: Assessment of U.S. Light-Duty Battery Manufacturing Jobs by 2032

The shift to electric vehicles (EVs) continues to gain momentum, increasing the demand for batteries. This boom presents an opportunity for the United States to develop and strengthen its battery supply chain while creating tens of thousands of jobs across the battery production process. This paper projects that the growing U.S. battery industry will create 84,000 to 125,000 domestic jobs by 2032. The projection stems from an analysis of a jobs-per-gigawatt-hour (GWh) ratio for producing battery packs and cell components for light-duty vehicles (LDVs) and for recycling batteries.