“Nickel can be a volatile beast,” said William Adams, head of base metal and battery research at Fastmarkets in London. Here’s how the math works. A 100 kilowatt hour battery needs about 145 pounds of nickel, according to BloombergNEF. Last year’s average price was about $US18,500 per metric tonne, Adams said. That means about $US1,200 […]
PRODUCING BATTERY MATERIALS IN THE DRC COULD LOWER SUPPLY-CHAIN EMISSIONS AND ADD VALUE TO THE COUNTRY’S COBALT – EQ Mag Pro
Study identifies DRC as a favorable destination for the manufacturing of sustainable battery materials used in high-nickel batteries London and Kinshasa : – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials. At the behest […]
Getting on Track For Net-Zero By 2050 Will Require Rapid Scaling of Investment in the Energy Transition Over the Next Ten Years
BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook charts three distinct pathways for the world to reach climate neutrality by mid-century London and New York : Achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will require as much as $173 trillion in investments in the energy transition, according to BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) New Energy Outlook 2021 (NEO), the latest edition of its […]
China dominates rollout of EV charging stations – 4,000 a day in December
China installed 284,000 public EV charging outlets in 2020, including 112,000 in December alone – more than the entire US public charging network – according to data published by BloombergNEF. BNEF’s Head of Advanced Transport, Colin McKerracher, quoted numbers which showed that China had over 800,000 publicly available EV charging outlets installed at the end […]
