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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.
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Mining company Ares Strategic Mining (ARES) announced on Thursday February 1 that fabrication of its fluorspar acidspar manufacturing facility in the US state of Utah has begun
Brazilian spodumene concentrate producer, Sigma Lithium, is mulling strategies during the current spodumene price downturn, including going further downstream to become one of the most competitive companies in the intermediate lithium chemicals market, chief executive officer Ana Cabral said on Thursday February 1
China’s spot lithium prices edged up over the week to Thursday February 1 amid a sharp uptick in restocking demand ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday (LNY), and some sellers refraining from making sales to increase prices, sources told Fastmarkets
Payables for black mass in key Asian markets showed potential for more downside in the week ended Wednesday January 31, according to market sources
Automotive companies operate in a highly competitive and volatile industry susceptible to fluctuating input costs. These costs, including raw materials, can significantly impact automotive manufacturers’ profitability and cash flow. There are several tools that an automotive procurement manager or risk manager can use to determine the extent of the risk embedded in production costs. This […]
Major Chinese lithium producers Ganfeng Lithium Group and Tianqi Lithium Corp issued profit warnings on Tuesday January 30, ahead of the publication of their annual results, due to the significant decline in lithium prices in 2023
Deep-sea mining is likely to be a competitive source for the extraction of key battery raw materials (BRMs) including nickel, manganese, cobalt and copper, two deep-sea miners told Fastmarkets late in January 2024
Underlying terms for contracts of spodumene are evolving for 2024 and beyond to address market volatility
Australian miner IGO Ltd will reset its spodumene concentrate offtake volumes pricing from the Greenbushes Operation every month, effective from January 1, 2024,
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