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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 Indian government has established royalty rates for the mining of lithium, rare earths and niobium, it announced on Wednesday October 11
Nickel metal produced in China has appeared in the London Metal Exchange warehouse system for the first time since the exchange began reporting its country-of-origin data in January 2023
A rare earth mining project nearing completion in the midwestern state of Goiás has the potential to kickstart the development of a rare earth industry in Brazil, market participants said
A slight rise in offers for black mass payables were heard in South Korea this week, but a wide bid-offer gap persisted in the market, according to sources
China’s spot lithium carbonate prices rebounded in the week to Thursday October 12 due to support from a surge in the lithium carbonate futures contract on Guangzhou Futures Exchange (GFEX), the first gain since the end of August, sources said
Holidays in key Asian black mass trading centers such as China and South Korea have limited purchasing over the last week but suppliers are holding their offers at firm levels, sources told Fastmarkets
There is a lot of additional activity in the United States when it comes to electric vehicle (EV) production and this will be supportive of black mass recycling, critical material production and active battery manufacturing that is needed to support the EV industry
Australia-based Sunrise Energy Metals is searching for a location in the US to build a nickel-cobalt refinery, the company confirmed to Fastmarkets
The future of Glencore and Li-Cycle’s major Italian hub for the recycling of key battery metals could be under threat after a request to fast-track the project was rejected by the regional government of Sardinia, southern Italy, according to a Glencore spokesperson
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