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 federal government is set to grant $200 million to Group14 Technologies to build a factory in Moses Lake that will help produce ingredients for next-generation batteries expected to, among other things, power electric cars to travel long distances between charges.