Celina Mikolajczak, Lyten’s chief technology officer, told the Financial Times its battery chemistry offers the US the opportunity to reduce China’s monopoly.
Meanwhile, Chinese firms continue to invest in lithium mining and processing and lithium-ion battery production around the world. The race for countries to establish a secure, independent supply of lithium is on.
Regardless of the growth in North America and Europe, China’s dominance is unmatched. Battery manufacturing is just one piece of the puzzle, albeit a major one. Most of the parts and metals that make up a battery —like battery-grade lithium, electrolytes, separators, cathodes, and anodes—are primarily made in China.
The acquisition of the mining contract enables China’s exploitation of 80,000 tons of lithium; this latest expansion, representing 1.8% of China’s known lithium reserves, will further embolden Chinese resource dominance in global lithium markets. In 2021, China imported 39% of Chile’s lithium.
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US battery start-up Lyten is committing more than $1bn to build the world’s first large-scale factory to produce lithium sulphur batteries, an emerging technology that could help break US dependence on China for metals crucial for the energy transition.
An additional issue is that China controls almost 60% of the world’s capacity for processing raw lithium products into battery-grade chemicals. Some Western countries are concerned that if lithium supplies fall short, Chinese companies will meet the needs of their own rapidly growing EV market first.
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China''s TBEA Group acquired a 49% stake in the YLB for $2.3 billion. The deal secured the development of several lithium extraction and processing plants, located in …
On 17 May 2021, China''s Ganfeng Lithium and Argentina''s mining ministry signed a memorandum of understanding, securing Chinese-backed development of a lithium battery manufacturing plant in...
Combined revenues and net profits at 107 mainland-listed companies in the lithium battery supply chain came in at Rmb293bn ($40bn) and Rmb17bn for the first quarter, …
Although it lives in China''s shadow when it comes to batteries, the U.S. is also among the world''s lithium-ion powerhouses. As of 2022, it had eight major operational battery …
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US battery start-up Lyten is committing more than $1bn to build the world''s first large-scale factory to produce lithium sulphur batteries, an emerging technology that could …
In 2022, China held a staggering 75 percent of global battery manufacturing capacity. Notably, Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL), the …
In 2022, China held a staggering 75 percent of global battery manufacturing capacity. Notably, Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL), the world''s largest battery manufacturer, alone …
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited, the world''s largest lithium-ion battery maker, is building a major EV battery plant in Germany and recently disclosed plans to build what could be ...
The partnership of Chinese firms with the Bolivian government is problematic as a large portion of the world''s lithium is found in South America (sources disagree but anywhere from 30-60% of the world''s lithium is likely …
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