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The Battery Metals Supply Chain: Solutions & opportunities with Chris Berry

The HC Commodities Podcast

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Graphite Manganese and the Future of Battery Development

The holy grail for a lithium ion battery is increasing energy density while minimizing the use of raw materials and also trying to minimize the weight of the battery. The Chinese basically dominate the supply chain, not so much from a production perspective, although they do produce the bulk of the world's natural graphite. On the anode side of the battery in particular, what you're starting to see is a great deal of R&D and development into "solid state" batteries.

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