What does the growth in EREVs mean for battery materials demand?
EREVs or Extended Range Electric Vehicles are a rapidly growing subset of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). But the difference between a PHEV and an EREV is that the gasoline powered motor in an EREV goes fully into charging the battery, as opposed to in a PHEV where it kicks in to power the vehicle. EREVs, sometimes known as mild hybrids, are an obvious bridging technology into BEVs. They have been known about for many years but have had something of a renaissance over the past 18-24 months. But EREVs use much smaller batteries than BEVs so what will the...
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Batteries
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China
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Lithium
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