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An increasingly fierce price war in China’s domestic automotive sector for electric vehicles (EVs) and traditional vehicles in recent months has dealt another blow to battery raw materials prices, sources told Fastmarkets

The publication of a number of Fastmarkets’ price assessments was delayed on Thursday March 16 for technical reasons.

German carmaker Volkswagen has chosen to establish its first North American battery cell plant in Ontario, Canada, due to the growing importance of the region’s e-mobility market share, it said on Monday March 13

Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) foresees global lithium demand reaching 1.5 million tonnes by 2025 and expects total demand to grow by at least 20% year on year in 2023, the Chilean miner said

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have been buying equity in miners to secure access to battery raw materials, but David Brocas, co-founder and managing partner of Voltaire Minerals Partners, contends that the offtake agreements may not be in the best interest of miners unless carefully structured

The local government of Yichun city in China’s Jiangxi province has begun a crackdown on illegal lithium mining in the city, it said on Friday February 24

Competition with Asia to bring the battery value chain to Europe intensifies as mining company Finnish Minerals Group and battery cell manufacturer Freyr Battery explore the possibility of producing LFP cathode material

US automotive manufacturer Ford’s announcement that it would invest $3.5 billion to build a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) plant in the US state of Michigan marks the chemistry’s adoption in a nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) dominated market

Junior miner Piedmont Lithium has agreed to provide South Korean cathode maker LG Chem with 200,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate (SC6%) over a four-year period, it said on Thursday February 16