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Global battery markets with Iola Hughes (Head of Research @ Rho Motion)
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Insights into Global Battery Demand and Market Evolution
The speaker introduces Rho Motion, a research company focused on battery demand across multiple sectors. They discuss the company's evolution and the benefits of their recent acquisition by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, enhancing their research capabilities in the battery value chain.
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Speaker 1
Hello
Speaker 2
and welcome to another episode of Transmission. Today we're joined by Iola. Iola, welcome.
Speaker 1
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2
Oh, thank you for being here. And so as ever, we'd really like to kick off with who you are and Rowemotion, who you work for, what do they do, who are their typical customers?
Speaker 1
Yeah, thanks Ed. So yeah, my name is Ayola Hughes. I'm head of research at a company called Roemotion. Roemotion was set up about six years ago to essentially give insights on the battery demand markets. So that started with really primarily the EV space, tracking EV sales on a monthly basis and building out outlooks for battery demand. We then really evolved our research into stationary storage as well and into other demand markets. So things like portables, two and three wheelers, even kind of aviation and marine and rail battery demand. We also do a lot on the kind of charging and infrastructure side, battery recycling and a bit on EV motors and systems. So providing kind of market data and reports on those different markets. And we were recently acquired by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, who are more focused on the upstream. Essentially, now we're kind of providing that full value chain from mine through to battery application. Okay,
Speaker 2
and this is going to be incredibly hard to stay on topic because the concept of like rail battery sounds incredibly exciting. And we should we should talk about that very briefly. What's what like what is going on in rail battery?
Speaker 1
So there's a few people working on kind of fully electric solutions. But the main demand right now is more kind of hybrid solutions. So you're looking at basically kind of reducing some of that diesel usage right now by putting in battery solutions to accompany that.
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