Wednesday, June 28, 2017 1:36:42 AM
Ive been tired of hearing about Lithium and now cobalt. Since they are rarer and more expensive, they get the attention. Nice Dines showed the value of graphite relative to the other materials. You can also see that with the Tesla battery is 20% natural graphite and 80% synthetic. With synthetic being less money, cleaner and more energy dense, we can see the potential catalysts lining up.
At present the average dollar value of graphite in a Tesla 85Kw battery pack is around US$1,250 (50kg) broken down into $1,200 synthetic (40kg) and $50 natural (10kg) graphite. The cost of synthetic graphite is about $30k per ton. Natural graphite's cost is closer to $10k per ton. The ability to reduce the raw-material cost in a Tesla battery pack is perhaps $500 per vehicle. It might not seem like a big savings, but when considering the almost 50-million new vehicles a year at a targeted 20% EV uptake, it equates to around $5 billion. Also noteworthy is that the same Tesla battery pack has $66 of lithium, $851 of cobalt and $146 of nickel (NMC Battery).
Additional to that are these quotes talking about another company
It is doubtful any other graphite company has this large amount of graphite concentrate material available to produce large numbers of large format-test cells. A junior miner, with only small amounts of drill-core samples, or a modest bulk sample, would not have enough material to demonstrate its graphite ability for cell manufacturers to trust.
Modest capital would be required to add on high-purity processing capabilities. We are not aware of any other graphite company to have this capacity
DNI has the ability to come out of nowhere and make this happen along side its business partner Great Lakes Graphite.
Keep up the good work Luke. Im here every day. To bad we couldnt numbers of the growing traffic here.
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