“[ "Guangzhou's 21st Century Business Herald attributed the investment craze to the robust sales of new-energy cars, whose output topped 98,900 units in the first seven months this year, triple the amount one year earlier. In 2014, output and sales of such cars soared 3.5 times and 3.2 times, respectively."
“ The skyrocketing sales of new-energy cars has overstrained the supply of lithium batteries,"
"Data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show that sales in the lithium-ion battery industry in China jumped 17.4% in the first half, when its total profits soared 72.8%.” ]"
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Great to see Li-Ion going gangbusters ....... 17.4 % in the Chinese market is a massive increase for half year ... and one would think it is replicated to a somewhat similar extent in the west
But I would have thought some sort of a flow on affect would have been realised if Li-Ion is the panacea for global graphite markets ?
