The Fastmarkets Battery Cost Index provides a monthly modelled-cost tracker for various NCM and LFP cells across different countries

A domestic price mechanism for lithium in the US is essential to bring transparency to the industry in order to successfully secure supply of the critical mineral, Graham Harris, chairman and director at Surge Battery Metals, told Fastmarkets in an interview.

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The global flagship event for the lithium market is back, bringing you the leading experts from across the supply chain for a week of discussions, debate and networking. You will meet everyone from the producers right the way through to the automakers and battery recycling companies. As the industry looks to secure supply to meet the energy transition targets being set around the world, understand the supply coming online, innovative battery chemistries of the future and much more.

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As we approach the end of the first quarter after the termination of the quarterly European ferro-chrome benchmark, Fastmarkets looks at what has happened since the benchmark ended – and what could happen next.