Prices of different battery compartment materials

What is Fastmarkets' battery raw materials suite?

Fastmarkets’ battery raw materials suite brings together the vital commercial insights, data and analytics that you need to help you make accurate forecasts, manage inventories and price risk, benchmark costs against your peers’ and balance the costs and benefits of sustainability.

What is the battery Cost Index?

Understand costs to guide battery design and economics with Fastmarkets' Battery Cost Index, which gives you pricing granularity for existing battery materials. Find out more here.

What contributes to the cost of battery cells?

The largest single contributor to the cost of battery cells is the materials used in them, especially the cathode materials. In addition to lithium, the transition metals manganese, iron, cobalt and nickel are used in particular.

How much does a nmc811 battery cost?

At present, the purchase prices for battery raw materials have probably already benefited from the lower spot market prices, even in longer-running but dynamic contracts. Our estimates give a price level of about 120 USD/kWh for the NMC811 and about 95 USD/kWh for the LFP cell.

What is the Fastmarkets battery Cost Index?

The Fastmarkets Battery Cost Index is an easy-to-use cost model for total cell costs, including cost breakdown of active anode material (AAM), cathode active material (CAM), separator, electrolyte, other materials, energy, labor and operational costs across multiple chemistries and geographies.

What role does supply contract design play in battery pricing?

In its Battery Update, Fraunhofer ISI points out which role the design of supply contracts plays in pricing and how the changes in raw material prices affect the costs of different lithium-ion battery technologies. Falling costs for battery cells have long been perceived as an essential condition for the widespread success of electromobility.