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Tesla supplier sheds light on graphite supply challenge for EV battery manufacturers [Editorial]

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Russia, Madagascar, Ukraine, Norway, Canada, India, and Sri Lanka make up the remaining Top 10 countries that produce graphite. Desaulniers noted that challenges are ahead when it comes to securing project financing since “cell makers are cash-constrained.” Graphite and the Inflation Reduction Act.

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

Green Car Congress

With a functioning AfCFTA, the DRC can receive other upstream mineral inputs needed for lithium-ion batteries—such as manganese from, say, South Africa and Madagascar, copper from Zambia, graphite from Mozambique and Tanzania, phosphate from Morocco, and lithium from Zimbabwe, to name but a few.

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