Hi everyone,
Nice article in ACS Chemical and Engineering News (July 13, 2020) by my friend Alex Scott on the current status of Li-ion manufacturing in Europe:
https://cen.acs.org/energy/energy-storage-/Europe-contender-electric-vehicle-batteries/98/i27
Today, Europe’s share of that market is a mere 3%. But with the battery making up about 40% of the value of an electric vehicle, Europe is waking up to the notion that whoever controls a region’s lithium-ion battery supply chain also wields much control over its lucrative car industry and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that go with it.
Some nice quotes, later in the article (where does Alex get these from?):
The challenge for the UK, as with other European countries, is that it has to put together a battery supply chain that Asian producers already have in place.
“We rely on supplies of some of the critical cell components and precursors from the Far East,” says Jerry Barker, chief technology officer for the UK sodium-ion battery firm Faradion. “It would be far better if we had a reliable, local, UK-based supply chain for cathode, anode, and electrolyte as well as the cell hardware such as separator and current collectors.”
Jerry
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