Lithium-ion continues to charge up

• Autores: Myles McCormick
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 584, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Junio)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Patrick Pouyanne, Total's CEO, said the deal would allow the company "to complement our portfolio with electricity storage solutions, a key component of the future growth of renewable energy" "It might be there, one last cycle of oil demand. After that I won't be talking about oil anymore, I would be talking about electric vehicles," Yongliang Por, head of APAC energy research at BNP Paribas, was recently reported as saying in the South China Morning Post.

    China has been strongly subsidising the EV market recently, a factor one major lithium producer recently pointed to as a root cause of the spike in lithium demand and price over the past quarter - the contract price of lithium carbonate has jumped to a range of $10-15/kg (min. 99-99.5% Li[subscript]2 CO[subscript]3, large contracts, del US) from levels of $6-$6.5/kg six months ago.