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MIT team reexamines rates of Li-ion cost decline

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The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen significantly over the last three decades, and has been a major driver of the rapid growth of those technologies. Lithium-ion cell prices. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science.

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The raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?

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We EVangelists have gotten used to smugly pointing to the steadily declining costs of batteries (and renewable energy). In the short term, lithium and graphite are definitely the most at risk of entering shortage,” says Benchmark’s George Miller. Farewell to falling prices. Will the raw materials shortage put the brakes on that trend?