That the U.S. is trailing is in fact backed by Tesla
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itself. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted that the company will increase its use of batteries from Japan’s Panasonic
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South Korea’s LG Electronics
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and China’s CATL
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One area the U.S. is strong in is potential next-generation batteries, the study says. The U.S. is the leader with 36% of patents on lithium-nickel-cobalt-aluminum-oxide chemistry for Li-ion batteries, which are already being used by Panasonic and Tesla.
The U.S. trails only Japan in patents for solid-state Li-ion battery patents, and is the leader with nearly a third of all patent applications in Redox flow batteries.
By company, Samsung
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Panasonic, LG Electronics, Toyota
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and Bosch had filed the most patent applications between 2000 and 2018.