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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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The rise in capacity-building in the past years in both China and Indonesia quickly turned nickel market once in short-supply into an oversupplied one, not only in China, but also globally
Payables for black mass (shredded and sorted lithium-ion batteries) in the European domestic market continued to drop in the week to January 15 amid weak demand and abundant supply
Stardust Power Inc is to build a battery-grade lithium refinery in Oklahoma in the United States, with major construction starting later in 2024, the US-based company’s founder and chief executive officer told Fastmarkets
Major carmaker Mercedes-Benz has deepened its plans to expand operations in Europe’s lithium-ion battery recycling space with the order of a new hydrometallurgical plant to recover battery metals from black mass
Hamburg-based copper producer Aurubis is considering the US and Europe among options for a future black mass recycling plant, chief executive officer Roland Harings told Fastmarkets on Monday January 8
Clearer standards are required in order to support the sustainable growth of its lithium-ion battery recycling sector
With China’s fluorspar prices hitting a record high in 2023, market participants in China expect export prices to fluctuate little throughout 2024, mainly due to shortage of supply
The pace of Chinese companies’ heavy investments in Indonesian nickel may slow in the new year with slumping prices eroding profitability amid additional geopolitical risks, Fastmarkets heard
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