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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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This recommendation, along with others like promoting domestic battery recycling and research funding for alternative battery chemistries, is part of a larger strategy to enhance US resilience in strategic areas
South Korea will provide $29 billion in funding to help local electric vehicle (EV) battery producers diversify their supply chains over the next five years, the government said on Wednesday December 13.
Spodumene concentrate prices have collapsed amid downstream pressure on lithium chemicals prices and weak physical demand for material on a spot basis ahead of the year-end
Pilbara Minerals will start to commission its joint-venture lithium hydroxide facility with Posco Holdings late in the current quarter, and will ramp-up activity through next year, the company’s chief executive officer has said
Fastmarkets has launched daily inferred prices for black mass in South Korea and Europe, starting on Friday December 8.
Spot lithium prices in China continued on a precipitous downtrend, with battery-grade lithium carbonate prices trending below 100,000 yuan per tonne over the week to Thursday December 7, following increased volatility in the futures market and muted demand
The Fastmarkets Battery Cost Index provides a monthly modelled-cost tracker for various NCM and LFP cells across different countries
The US Department of Treasury has released its definition of a Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) for the purposes of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – and there are big implications for nickel.
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