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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.

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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. If approached correctly, African countries can capitalize on their abundant natural resources, growing demand for vehicles and rapid urbanization to build a global hub to produce electric vehicles. This is three times cheaper than what a similar plant in the US would cost.

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