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Argonne study finds rare earth supply disruptions can have long-range impacts

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Disruptions to this supply can have wide-ranging consequences, but the understanding of how those disruptions play out in global markets is limited. China dominates the global rare earths market. Causes of supply disruptions. The researchers at Argonne are using a unique computer model to understand the effects.

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BNEF: China dominates the Li-ion battery supply chain, but Europe is on the rise

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China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. In 2020, Japan and Korea rank number two and three respectively. The US is in sixth place in 2020.

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Roskill: rare earth magnet applications to account for ~40% of total RE demand by 2030, up from 29% in 2020

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Roskill expects that rare earth permanent magnet applications represented 29% of total demand in 2020—the largest single end use—consuming a mixture of neodymium (Nd), praseodymium (Pr), dysprosium (Dy), along with other elements used at fillers such as cerium (Ce) and gadolinium (Gd).

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Argonne report finds most battery cells and packs for US light-duty PEVs produced domestically from 2018 to 2020; due to Tesla/Panasonic

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More than half of all battery cells used in plug-in electric vehicles (BEVs and PHEVs) since 2010 have been produced in the US, as have nearly 90% of all battery packs, according to a recent study of the Li-ion battery supply chain by a team at Argonne National Laboratory. Zhou et al. Zhou et al. United States: N. doi: 10.2172/1778934.

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DOE: US net petroleum imports negative for 2020

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In 2020, net petroleum imports (total imports minus exports) were negative for the first time since the US Energy Information Administration began tracking them—i.e., Total petroleum products supplied is the sum of the products supplied for each petroleum product, crude oil, unfinished oils, and gasoline blending components.

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Report says lithium from California’s Salton Sea can anchor US battery supply chain

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Developing lithium from the Salton Sea in California can help anchor a multi-billion dollar domestic electric vehicle battery supply chain and inject thousands of jobs and billions of dollars into California’s economically disadvantaged Imperial Valley, according to a new report from New Energy Nexus. Earlier post.).

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BloombergNEF annual battery price survey finds prices fell 6% from 2020 to 2021

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This marks a 6% drop from $140/kWh in 2020. This reflects the relative immaturity of these markets, the diverse range of applications and, for the higher end of the range, low volume and bespoke orders. All prices are in real 2021 $, unless stated as nominal.) Packs in the US and Europe cost 40% and 60% higher, respectively.

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