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As @bk1 said, to start from scratch would be a massive undertaking and also as bk1 said there is intellectual property costs, if you are buying off the shelf technology.I think your idea makes really good sense SP. If I was looking for a businessman who would run a thoughtful ruler over the idea it would be Twiggy Forrest.
There would be so many synergies with his current projects of massive electrification. He already has precedents of simply buying up companies with the technologies and talents he wants and enclosing them in his public and private companies. Be interesting to see if he has been considering such a move.
The easiest way would be for the Govt to give tax incentives to get either established manufacturers to build the plants, or give incentives to existing battery material miners to value add and increase taxes on them if they don't.
If the Govt doesn't get involved it will end up costing the taxpayer hugely to transition from fossil fuels, they need to encourage value adding so they broaden the tax base and the employment base, otherwise the tax base will shrink and the cost to install the renewables will fall on that diminishing tax base and increasing welfare base.
IMO doing nothing, as we are doing at the moment, isn't an option.
The Govt can't just say we are going to reduce emissions by x amount and have no plan as to how to get there, other than throw money at transmission lines and hope that people will build sufficient generation and storage, that isn't a plan it is a wish list.
The private sector will only build what gives them a return on equity, a lot of this wont and the Govt has to realise this, so they need to start and invest in long term returns like value adding secondary processing and tertiary manufacturing where we have an advantage.
It ain't rocket science, they are going to have to give incentives for sustainable long term growth, not just for the next election.