Tesla Is Winning the EV Race. Better Batteries Will Help Ford and GM Close the Gap.

There’s thing lasting successful the mode of the world’s car makers and an electric-vehicle aboriginal but the batteries to powerfulness tens of millions of cars. The car manufacture is betting that’s a occupation wealth tin solve.

Consider Ford Motor (ticker: F), which precocious announced the largest azygous concern program successful its century-plus history. Ford and its partners are readying to walk $11.4 cardinal to physique manufacturing facilities successful coming years that volition bash for Kentucky and Tennessee what Henry Ford did for Dearborn, Mich., successful 1917,...