The Biden administration is awarding $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and other materials used for electric vehicles, part of a continuing push to reduce China’s global dominance in battery production.

China’s electric-vehicle market is offering a tentative challenge to the shift toward batteries with no nickel or cobalt.

The Energy Department says the boost to battery makers and suppliers willl support 12,000 production and construction jobs.

The US Department of Energy announced today plans to dole out more than $3 billion to over two dozen battery projects across 14 states. The money will go toward processing critical minerals, building batteries and their components,