Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up

Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up by jeromegv on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:06PM (#21716503)

You still have to get lithium?

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Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up by marcosdumay on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:30PM (#21717381)

Lithium is reasonably cheap already, and is in that stage where a marginal increase on scale brings the price lower, instead of higher.

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Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up by ben_w on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:16PM (#21717241)

I’m not a chemist — would it be harder to get it from recycling old batteries than getting it from rocks?

Because even the battery market is saturated, recycling is the only source you’ll need.

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Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up by salty_biscuits on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:27PM (#21717357)

There is a lot of lithium about, just not a lot of stuff that is easy to get at. The cost of lithium isn't a huge part of battery cost at the moment anyway (10s of dollars per kilo with about 50kg in an ev battery).

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Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up by ben_w on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:18AM (#21720259)

About 1kg/kWh?

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Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up by the8472 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:29PM (#21717373)

more succinctly: petroleum is a consumable needed for operation, lithium is a manufacturing input

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