Industrial Minerals


Li-ion graphite ‘woefully short’

29 December 2009

by Simon Moores

Double world’s flake graphite output needed to satisfy forecast lithium-ion demand

Keywords: lithium-ion, battery, graphite, flake, electric vehicle

With virtually all the focus on lithium carbonate availability to the potential lithium-ion (Li-ion)/ electric and hybrid vehicle market, warnings came from the graphite industry this week that supply of flake graphite is not sufficient at present to satisfy a projected demand increase from this growing market.

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