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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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EnergyX expects that its five lithium refinery demonstration plants in North and South America will all be up and running within the next 12 months, bringing the company one step closer to commercialized direct-lithium-extraction (DLE) production, according to chief executive officer Teague Egan. Egan told Fastmarkets that the demonstration plants are being developed in:California’s Salton […]
The economic feasibility of securing supplies of critical raw materials such as gallium and germanium could threaten the “green” transition to the use of electric vehicles, a UK-based industry association, the Critical Minerals International Alliance (CMIA), told Fastmarkets
The supply of battery-grade manganese sulfate will switch from oversupply to deficit by 2028 despite new capacity coming online, especially outside of China, according to Fastmarkets’ most recent forecast ahead of the European Battery Raw Materials Conference in Amsterdam on September 18-20
The combination of slow demand and oversupply has been putting pressure on the price for cobalt, with part of that pressure coming from the changing preference in battery chemistry toward lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries and away from nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) batteries
Brazil-headquartered spodumene producer Sigma Lithium, having recently completed its second successful commercial shipment, has formally become a target for merger and acquisitions, it revealed in a press release published on Wednesday September 13
The use of niobium as an additive in battery manufacturing could expand to provide as much as one-quarter of the revenues at leading global producer Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração (CBMM) by 2030
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