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It’s too late to China-proof the lithium supply chain – ET Auto

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billion) into a financing facility to support exports. If rich democracies wanted to build a clean-energy industry free of Beijing’s influence, they should have had their checkbooks out when miners and processors were starved of cash during the 2010s. Add in Zimbabwe, where Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. Pilbara Minerals Ltd.,

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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Capital cost to build a 10k metric-ton battery precursor plant. While there are notable leading electric-vehicle and cell manufacturers today, the sheer scale of growth expected in the coming decades means that there is inherent uncertainty over which companies and countries may come to dominate this new value chain. Source: BNEF.

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