EV battery makers are getting their hands on everything

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This is no longer just about hard-to-get metals like lithium and cobalt - supply shortages are coming for the entire EV battery supply chain.

One of the most abundant and essential ingredients in electric vehicle batteries is beginning to experience demand pressures, showing how supply chain troubles are getting deeper and the value chain even more expensive.to procure materials from the firm’s Louisiana operations, with the raw inputs coming from Mozambique.Bloomberg

This flurry of early – and prescient – moves by some manufacturers to get their hands on materials as basic as graphite make it clear: This is no longer just about higher-value and harder-to-get metals like Most new graphite electrode capacity is also produced in the world’s second largest economy, according to BloombergNEF data, followed by Japan, India and the US.

That’s even as producers in China have been able to bring down the cost of graphitisation – a key process that accounts for around half the cost of an anode – by as much as 15 per cent to 20 per cent. A quarter of the price is raw materials.

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