“I’m extremely bullish about lithium in this country:” Interview with DOE’s Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes

Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes, Deputy Director, Batteries and Critical Minerals, Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, U.S. Department of Energy; Andrew Miller, COO - Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Our guest this week is Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes, who is Deputy Director for Batteries & Critical Materials at the U.S. Department of Energy. In this interview, which was filmed at the Benchmark Week conference in Los Angeles in November, she talks about the DOE’s role in supporting the battery supply chain; how the US can compete with China in the long-term via vertical integration; and why she’s bullish on US lithium.