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Volatile battery raw material prices, varying battery chemistries and differing manufacturing costs result in cell prices that appear opaque and subjective. This makes it difficult for market participants to budget effectively, anticipate price changes, bring transparency to transactions and effectively track cost changes over time.
The Fastmarkets Battery Cost Index is an easy-to-use cost model for total cell costs, including cost breakdown of active anode material (AAM), cathode active material (CAM), separator, electrolyte, other materials, energy, labor and operational costs across multiple chemistries and geographies. The Fastmarkets Battery Cost Index provides historical costs, changes over time and cell cost forecasts.
Our battery cost index breaks down the cost, historical and forecast, for different cell types and chemistries
We buy cathode material; this is a valuable tool to help us to understand how suppliers cost the cathodes, this can help us to have more informed negotiations.
Actionable insights and market intel on the battery materials market and how the cost of raw materials is impacting the cost of electric vehicles
The rebound in global demand for and prices of lithium compounds is creating a market environment that is increasingly attractive for commodity traders
Rio Tinto’s major setback at its lithium development project in Serbia exposes the overall fragility of Europe’s outlook for bringing battery raw material sourcing closer to home
The biggest takeaways from a recent webinar led by Janie Davies between Fastmarkets’ William Adams and Dalila Ouerghi with the CME’s Gregor Spilker on the cobalt market outlook for 2022
Spot prices for spodumene concentrate continued to post sharp gains over the past fortnight due to tight supply combined with continuously improving demand for downstream lithium chemicals amid booming electric vehicle demand worldwide
Electra Battery Materials Corp has signed a battery recycling and cobalt sulfate supply agreement with Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corp, the Canada-based company said
The world is going to need more graphite, both in natural and synthetic forms, to meet the demands from the energy transition
Trading companies are concerned about the potential risk to their reputation and image while they form their strategies to capitalize on the business opportunities offered by energy transition efforts, according to a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Recent supply agreement between Tesla and graphite producer Syrah Resources for graphite anode material signals that original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are starting to notice the need to secure the supply of materials beyond battery cathode components
A research report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has found graphite to be the metal with the largest indicated potential shortage in the energy transition sector, followed by cobalt, vanadium and nickel
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