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Goldman Sachs rattled lithium stocks after the investment bank declared the battery metals bull market “over for now”.
To Today, where,
BYD jumps ahead of Tesla in battery metal push
China’s BYD Co. is once again the largest shipper of electric vehicles in the world’s top market after rivals including Tesla Inc. were disrupted by Shanghai’s lockdown.
The Warren Buffett-backed car producer is also working on plans to deliver a longer-term advantage over competitors, aiming to become more directly involved in the mining of lithium, the raw material that’s crucial for EV batteries.
In March, BYD agreed to invest up to 3 billion yuan ($449 million) in Chengxin Lithium Group Co., a supplier that has projects and interests in China’s Sichuan province and locations including Indonesia and Argentina.
A Chinese media report last week suggested the automaker is dramatically accelerating this strategy by striking a deal to buy six mines in Africa capable of producing enough lithium for more than 27 million EVs.
That could be sufficient to cover BYD’s lithium demand for the next 10 years, according to the report by The Paper, a Chinese digital newspaper.
BYD’s reported shopping spree in Africa indicates the carmaker expects “a prolonged lithium shortage”, according to a note from Daiwa Capital Markets.
Securing sufficient supplies of raw materials is likely to be “the biggest challenge for all automakers for most of this decade,” Seth Goldstein, a Chicago-based equity strategist at Morningstar Research Services, told me last week.
The best solution would be for carmakers to lock in more long-term agreements with the industry’s major producers like Albemarle Corp. and Ganfeng Lithium Co., which have the most ability to bring on new supply, Goldstein says.
“Investing in junior miners who have never produced lithium, or new technologies, is relatively more risky and could result in not being able to secure enough lithium,” he said.
www.mining.com/category/battery-metals/
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Food for thought on the Road to Mining Manono
Frank
BuT GoLdMaNn SuCcHz SaYs ThAt LiThIuM iS OvErPrIcEd!?!
God that hurt my brain just typing it, sorry you guys have to read that.
"BYD’s reported shopping spree in Africa indicates the carmaker expects “a prolonged lithium shortage”, according to a note from Daiwa Capital Markets."
Good, I know of a company with lots of lithium in the ground...