Automotive
Your guide to automotive market trends, EV battery materials, and raw material pricing for the global car manufacturing industry.
Our automotive customers get access to in-depth price data and short- and long-term forecasting and analysis for the following raw materials
- Agriculture: Biofuels, hides and leather
- Forest products: Paper packaging, pallets
- Metals and mining: Base metals, battery raw materials, rare earths, steel, scrap
Our battery raw materials analytics include a Battery Recycling Outlook and Battery Cost Index. We continue to expand our coverage as the global automotive market evolves.
Learn more about the products and services that make up Fastmarkets’ automotive suite:
Breaking news and market-reflective commodity prices, even when markets are at their most volatile.
Commodities covered: Steel, scrap, base and minor metals, ores and alloys, industrial minerals, pallets, rare earths, packaging, biofuels, hides and leather
Analysis of the forces moving your markets and how they’ll play out over the next 1-2 years.
Commodities covered: Steel, scrap, base and minor metals, ores and alloys, industrial minerals, rare earths, packaging
5- and 15-year forecasts underpinned by deep industry expertise, macroeconomic analysis and 50 years of historical data.
Commodities covered: Battery raw materials
Leave your details and we’ll call you back.
Volatile prices
Price volatility is nothing new for procurement professionals familiar with the vagaries of global commodity markets. And yet, recent price volatility is straining material management processes and supplier relationships.
Fastmarkets helps automakers anticipate and hedge against price risk and put in place more robust pricing practices.
Opaque markets
Market complexity, dependence on imports from distant shores, supply insecurity, accessing new subsidies driven by the Inflation Reduction Act and the EU Battery Directive, unanticipated changes in regulation, recycling mandates and imperatives — it’s a lot to juggle.
Fastmarkets gives automakers access to a network of expert price reporters and analysts, deeply immersed in their markets. Our news and analysis services bring their insights to you in real time.
Supply chain uncertainty
Every link of the automotive supply chain has been tested to its limits in recent years. When the business turns to the planning and strategy team to predict the market’s next move, that team turns to Fastmarkets.
Fastmarkets equips automakers with up-to-date market analysis, coverage of the latest news and trends moving the market and access to experts. Our in-depth analysis of the EV value chain includes cost differentials as well as prices, forecasts and subsidy impacts for the US, Europe, China and the rest of Asia.
Looking for a specific price? Search our database for one of our 5,500+ prices.
Automakers have long relied on Fastmarkets’ price data, news and analysis to inform their procurement strategies and manage risk for traditional automotive raw materials such as leather, steel and aluminium. Automakers now also partner with Fastmarkets to inform their electrification and sustainability strategies, leveraging our expertise in battery raw materials and rare earths, green metals and more.
- Fastmarkets has more than 100 years’ experience in analyzing and pricing commodity markets.
- We hold benchmark prices in lithium, iron ore, aluminium and many other key materials.
- We’ve got more than 600 team members worldwide, with price reporters on the ground in key markets, as well as analysts and editorial teams who are researching and reporting on shifting market dynamics.
Download the product brochure to learn more.
Our team of commodity market experts and price reporters provide weekly prices and market analysis for the automotive industry.
Read Fastmarkets’ monthly battery raw materials market update for May 2025, focusing on raw materials including lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and more
Read Fastmarkets’ monthly battery raw materials market update for April 2025, focusing on raw materials including lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and more
EV advocate Quentin Willson talks myths, market trends and the road ahead
Read Fastmarkets’ monthly battery raw materials market update for March 2025, focusing on raw materials including lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and more
Significant challenges lie ahead for Europe and its plans to decarbonize transport, industry experts have told Fastmarkets following the European Commission’s recent decision to relax emissions standards for domestic automakers.
Liontown Resources is turning its mind to dealmaking to expand its focus beyond its Kathleen Valley lithium mine in Australia, the company’s chief executive officer told Fastmarkets.
The possibility that tax credits for electric vehicles (EVs) will be rescinded under the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump has given US sales – and some automotive manufacturers – a long sought-after boost.
Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) has been added to the US Department of Defense’s Chinese Military Company (CMC) list.
Read our outlook on the EV market for 2025, including insights into how increasing production in China will shape the industry.
Download this checklist help you create effective procurement strategies.
Whether you’re interested in learning how to become a customer from our sales teams or looking to get in touch with one of our reporters, we’re here for you.
Navigate uncertainty and make business decisions with confidence using our price data, forecasts and critical intelligence.
Metal Bulletin • American Metal Market • Scrap Price Bulletin • Industrial Minerals • RISI • FOEX • The Jacobsen • Agricensus • Palm Oil Analytics • Random Lengths • Hardwood Market Report
• FastMarkets and more