@@timothykeith1367 don't know, but that's exactly what the claims were. That we could not transition to EV's because there was not enough lithium to do it.🤔
Dead batteries too. The 2-6 screen in the EVs are tablets that send and receive signals and updates when the cars are off. And people are waking up to find out they need to charge their car 3 hours before work.
They had a long term offtake agreement with Tesla when the price was high, with guaranteed offtakes, but turned it down in hope for a better offer. Unfortunate decision.
It's impossible to see the future. A couple years back, all the rage was to predict STRATOSPHERIC lithium prices in coming years. In a similar way, crude oil prices are HIGHLY volatile and EXTREMELY difficult to predict accurately over time. Or pick pretty much ANY volatile commodity -- same thing.
While there is a temporary glut in lithium stocks, the demand will increase. Lithium however is not a rare resource, the winners will be miners who can be the most efficient.
The death of ICE has been greatly exaggerated. Hertz the rental car company found that out the hard way. Green is the new red. Oil is still black gold.
Lithium prices are just back to pre-Pandemic prices. All mining companies should have been planning for this day. The other big threat to lithium is... sodium. The last expensive raw material in LFP cells is... lithium. Even at today's prices it's still very expensive compared to sodium. All we need is for someone to scale up a practical sodium-iron-phosphate or sodium-sulfur or sodium-other-cheap-material battery, and the lithium show will be pretty much over within a few years. Even if energy density is relatively low, stationary storage is currently using a lot of lithium.
More lithium schills purporting lithium is the only viable chemistry. Never mind Lithium thermal runaway the Conservative press has a field day with. Nevermind the super cheap price of sodium. Never mind the extraction pollution of lithium. Never mind all that the schills say. Sodium ion will never work.
@@rogergeyer9851 That's correct, prices are going down because of new big lithium mines coming online in Zimbabwe. And will continue going down because of new mine projects in Argentina and Bolivia.
We can't have it both ways. We need cheap lithium for cheap EVs. The same happened with silicon between 2004 and 2008 when its price shot through the roof before crashing back down. That's right, that's just sand and some coal. Both completely abundant. Yet traders pumped up the price through the roof. Yet silicon is very cheap today and many companies make very nice profits making it. It's the same with lithium. It's more abundant than oil. Pretty much anywhere sodium (salt) exists, so does lithium. The companies that will survive are those that can mine and refine it cheaply while still making a profit.
Anyone investing in highly volatile commodities in a way that is reliant on stable pricing AND doesn't put on serious hedges -- is insane. They'll get crushed like a bug. There are good reasons that things like crude oil producing AND consuming industries (oil companies and airlines, for example) tend to heavily use crude oil futures to HEDGE their costs to insure their profit margins. It's about management and planning ahead, since aside from hedging, such prices can't be controlled. And of course, such hedges are NOT free -- they're a cost of doing business and the primary reason the commodity futures markets EXIST.
A lot of money being spent in Cornwall (U.K.) on getting in to lithium mining. Appears there is plenty of it underground and at a decent percentage. Again the question is are they too late. By the time mining gets under way and the infrastructure Is in place there is a good possibility that battery technology will have moved on.
@neilkurzman4907 The other channels also made mention of Sodium Batteries. The way it looks at the moment. The world will have Quantum Batteries before Sodium Batteries.
@@icosthop9998tongue in cheek, Cornwall, land of my birth, is also surrounded by sodium in those freezing, but shark free, Atlantic waters! MIT have recently announced a knew way of going straight from brine to lithium metal, without all the intermediary processing hard rock mined ?spodumene? needs to be extract lithium. That’ll be a shocker!
Salton Sea lithium is case in point for long term lower cost production, especially when paired with existing geothermal power plants already pulling hot brine up to surface and then sending the cold back down. All they need to do is extract the lithium along the way.
the volcanic mud seems to have corroded all the DLE machines used in testing so far not a single company in salton sea has produced a gram of LI when they do produce some from a pilot plant and release a PEA report, it would be worth a look
I did say long term, didn't mean next week, month or year necessarily. I trust over time materials science will sort it out. Naysayers are welcome to trust what they will.
@@robcarvalho1 the problem starts with the sheer amount of brine required to produce a sizable production. The hot Brine is corrosive to everything requiring nickel Chrome alloys that are very expensive.... Corrosion means product impurity... Which can't have for battery grade material. Brine also has to be re-injected.... In a different place so you don't back dilute your feedstock.... When you look at the see your volumes of Brine needed per year..... You need...tens of thousands of acres for a single plant..... Networks of pipelines....miles of pipelines, dozens or even hundreds of wells, and people to run them and maintain them. It's just not that easy. And you can figure 2 million $ per well. Environmental impact... Foreshore. Eyesore... For sure. There's no free lunch that's the reality.
Good video. Sounds like AU needs its own processing plants to complete the process and a couple of Giga plants to make EV batteries. All it takes it money and customers in the EU and the US forget about China. It can be done with long term stablitiy too.
Cheapest spodumene producer is Marula Mining. Operations in South Africa and listed in London. Backed by South Africa's self made billionaire. It will be producing spodumene, Manganese, Cooper Cement and graphite sales this year with a first dividend year end. All for under £30m market cap. It will multi bag this year.
Lithium is everywhere! It's like water, but a bit harder to extract. Short answer: you can get lithium from any place on Earth. And every one important has known that.
Predicting such commodity prices is VERY difficult, even for a year, much less "decades". Just look at crude oil, for an obvious example. It's VERY well known, VERY well established as a crucial commodity used in HUGE numbers of BBLs annually globally, and yet its price is ALL OVER THE PLACE, and super unpredictable over time.
Copper may be a better investment right now...we still need wires for everything, including EVs. But I have no idea which copper mining company to invest in or how to invest in copper futures.
People have become sceptical about an EV future. That's one factor. The other is that lithium batteries as currently manufactured have long-term safety problems. Let the Chinese market absorb the lithium overstock while better batteries are designed.
Most of us knew the sky high prices were not sustainable! Not sure if lithium and related stock prices will rebound significantly, with all the supply and legacy Auto quitting EV production lithium will take a long time to rebound and certainly won't go back to the crazy level. In fact it has room to go lower using pre-pandamic prices as baseline.
Really good that you mention how the OEMs are getting out of making EVs . 👍 _Many people have not got that memo yet_ . ( At least the OEMs have slowed down production of their EVs, because their EVs are sitting on the dealerships lots and no one is s buying them.) In North America the only EV that is selling is Tesla.
Supply and demand … There now is an abundance of supply across the world, so the price is going to stay low until there is an increase in demand again - repeating the cycle. I’m a mining engineer, it’s what naturally happens
Tough call, battery tech is changing all the time and if someone develops a cheaper/better alternative to lithium them those shares will become worthless. I suggest that you don't buy shares to trade, but as a long term investment.
There are dozens of recent battery technologies announced and yet none have come to the global market in the past 5 years. Companies keep announcing these so called breakthroughs but are unable to scale them so they just keep pushing for more investment and funding. Its not going to end well.
Prices will briefly go up again before coming down yet again once the new mining sites in the US come online. They have many years of supply and are cheap to extract. Plus, there are reports of progress on the processes and costs of refinement. It'll still get cheaper, IMHO.
Lithium is over supplied, which is a good thing! We need more lithium, but companies will need to merge and pace their supply. My daughter and son both work in the rare earth mining industry of silver and gold, and they’re facing the same problem: over supply and lowering costs.
Jai Hinduja. Bowing to moneyed Wall street swamp men, the Biden regime is putting a brake on its climate change agenda to please UAW union, Legacy autos and car distributors etc. citing lack of efficient US supply chain manufacturing, inadequate charging infrastructure, ungreen EVs production processes and techno geopolitical rivalry.
Like many commodities there is a great deal more lithium then is thought. Rock lithium deposits are not able to compete with Brine and Clay lithium deposits which are much more economical to extract and process.. Something like fracking is possible when tapping soluble lithium deposits and hard rock processing will not be able to compete economically with these methods.. Lithium abundancy is bad news for some mining operations and scarcity benefiting commodity traders but good news for humanity as it means we are not going to be a Lithium bottle neck unless humanity grows to hundreds of billions but by then we will probable have discover something much better.
Didn't Musk say there was a lithium shortage a few years ago and Tesla would buy every ton that was produced? He also said he wasn't worried about copper because they were changing to 48v low volt system. Well copper is at all time highs and lithium at lows. Copper is still the way to play a renewable energy future
He said there was loads of lithium (a common element, periodic table #3) but it was Cobalt that was rare! What's the price of that per kilogram? The answer may give you a good steer.🎉
I bought Lake Resources lithium stock on the ASX for 6c about 3 years ago. It got over $2 briefly and is now back at 10c. I took profit and playing with house money on this one.
The collapse of the "lithium industry" is inevitable, with the popularity of substitute materials such as LFP which only uses a small amount of lithium and also sodium batteries which are much cheaper and more environmentally friendly, the lithium industry will lose its market.
When practical sodium batteries are better than all lithium batteries, be sure to get back to us on that. In the real world, the VAST majority of things in labs never reach large scale commercialization for a wide variety of reasons. Lithium being at something like a fifth of its former higher prices likely makes sense, given overall supply and demand and future forecasts for lithium and battery demand. It's all about supply and demand, re pricing, not the opinion of random RU-vid commenter X, because they have an unfounded opinion.
So is large scale production of "Sodium Batteries" just a myth ?❔️ The rumor of so many breakthrough technologies in batteries and none of them have hit full scale production yet. 🤦🏼
My understanding is that there is NOT a shortage of lithium but rather a lack of processing of it (mainly all in China) and that’s why Tesla is building a lithium processing plant in the US. Also battery technology is rapidly evolving along with all related technology and lithium might not be a critical component in the long term.
With lower lithium prices should expect continued discounting in not only EVs but also mass storage solutions. Quite a few players in the mass storage space. Interesting to watch the evolution in mass storage, EVs and Hybrids.
Sodium Ion batteries are now on the market, cheaper than lithium because (sodium is everywhere in nature), not the same VA/h but they do the job, i got few to test 18650 and 26700 format and they work, they do not use the same lithium batteries BMS but can use same chargers, the only downside i find is that must be charged more often but they seem to endure more charging cycles and do not have issues of cold or heat to operate.
I don't invest in this sort of thing, but lithium demand is still rising. EV batteries and other batteries continue to be a growth industry, and lithium is still a critical battery material despite emerging alternatives like sodium. If I were a betting man, I'd bet on a higher lithium price a year or two in the future, but lithium production must come down first. Production will eventually rise again but not before currently marginal producers are out of business. That's how capitalism works. Supply balances demand not because investors are always so brilliant but because high prices attract more investment and lower prices drive marginal production out of the market. The brilliant investor theory is basically the central planning theory. Booms and busts are not market failures. They're markets working.
i would say yes to invest , especially if one car manufacturer were to invest in a mining company. you need a solid foundation to weather the storm this time could be a great time to buy lithium at the bottom as it will rebound and set a new level
All depends on if heavy vehicles go electric with current battery technology. As for passenger vehicles I think demand will depend on cost of living pressures.
Strategically, if we look at the demand it’s credible that Sodium Ion takes over a large chunk of the market, and for static power (renewables time shifting grid operations, home solar / backup power, ships etc) Li-Ion seems so ridiculous now. Lithium in lighter and premium vehicles seems like a long term play, so we will see how all that shakes out. But it’s not a lock on the long term market like it looked 5 years ago.
China Belt and Roads project is building mines in Indonesia and Africa without the regulations for Australian mining companies. Look at the volume of lithium being mined globally to see if production has just moved away from Australia.
Why when I minimize the RU-vid app when I'm watching one of your videos I can keep watching your video like if I had RU-vid premium??? (K don't have premium and It doesn't happen with any other videos!!!)
It’s not unusual for mining companies to put their operations into maintenance mode if the value of their product falls below a predetermined level. They sit it out and wait until the stockpiles are exhausted and there’s a shortage, then they fire up again but sell at a hugely increased price. These reductions in battery costs due to cheap lithium are only temporary, watch what happens down the track. Batteries are always going to be the Achilles heel of EVs, just like any other battery powered appliance.
Exactly. And this tends to happen a LOT with many commodities when they get expensive. The best remedy for high prices (over time) is high prices, at least until a commodity truly gets very scarce. Rare earth metals are much more common generally than was previously thought.
Only a fool thinks lithium is scarce. Concentrations of lithium high enough to economically extract..... Are scarce...... Mining is all about concentration.
Did you also (very wrongly) think mined commodities are never highly volatile, re price? How about crude oil for another blatantly obviously example of a commonly used commodity?
L😂L the new *Gold. 🪙* It seems like everything dealing with EVs is very volatile ❗️💥❗️ GM and Ford both thought much wealth would be gain via the EV market. 📈 But both car makers have put their production of producing EVs on hold, no body wants to buy their very troublesome crappy 💩💩💩 EVs 📉 and their EVs just sit on the dealership lots. 😢
Simple cycle, reserves grew as miners expected higher prices. Low prices halt mines, reserves dropping prices already rising. EV uptake imminent, Tesla Model 2 pending
The very possibility of sodium being a viable alternative will mean that lithium would be completely wiped out of the market. As soon as sodium gets any traction, market is gone. Even at the same price as rock salt, lithium would probably struggle because of its many limitations.
With several car manufacturers dropping or sharply curtailing EV production, electric companies adding costs to solar power owners (while getting laws promoting folks from going off the grid), interest rates sky high, and a global recession politicians deny but cannot hide, coupled to new major finds in Norway and USA, the price slump will last for a couple more years. By then the Ambri battery may be ready to grow into the higher- capacity side of this market. Yes it will come back - but probably at a slower rate than some companies can handle.
It’s not unusual for mining companies to put their operations into maintenance mode if the value of their product falls below a predetermined level. They sit it out and wait until the stockpiles are exhausted and there’s a shortage, then they fire up again but sell at a hugely increased price. These reductions in battery costs due to cheap lithium are only temporary, watch what happens down the track. Batteries are always going to be the Achilles heel of EVs, just like any other battery powered appliance.
I don't think I've ever seen a youtube video with a 3 minute outro before ... I'd say lithium is a long-term stock investment, but don't over-invest. Lithium is very common, but it's hard to know where/when/who will develop it.
This what happens when governments mandate huge changes in the economy without a proper business case and without taking into account human behaviour which is to protect themselves from harm which in this case is higher costs. EV’s insurance premiums are much much higher than ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles, but more importantly who will be paying the ROAD TAXES after there are no more ICE vehicles on the road?
Not sure where you live but my EV insurance is pretty much the same as all ICE vehicles I ever owned. As far as the taxes, they are coming from EV registrations, several states in the United States have already implemented that tax for the upkeep of the roads. Economies have to adapt to new technologies, nothing new about that as far as EV's are concerned.
Some of them water evaporation farm & drain the water out of the ground to evaporate the lithium out of it. They end up stopped because they drain the aquifer.
One thing you have to remember bp33 to go underground how much will it cost as of December they had 124 million plus selling product on the rom and that finishes In June If not enough cash what a cap raise at 15c 10c Share price was 65 when they did a cap raise at 40c stuffed the whole share price will they restart for a few months then rain again I wouldn't wouldn't bet on it
Quote from EV (electric viking - not the car): ...the company has mined too much lithium, and so it is stockpiling it because they don't want to sell it at cheap prices... So actually, the issue is simply down to human greed and the company prioritising profit over everything else (even it's own survival), is it not???
That's a valid approach. But that has risk too, as the taxes, the storage expenses, the lack of cash flow for months or years or decades, etc. all ADDS UP. And many businesses don't have gigantic piles of cash or credit to endlessly use to gamble and hope they win.
Nice little bit of info, like only someone like you can pick out in a timely way... very nice Viking... thanks for the tip, I'm looking at it now... it makes sense... Tinto is literally one of those companies (too big to fail)
the problem with Lithium isn't it's availability at this time, it's the cost of refinement as well as New Battery technologies being discovered on a regular basis, Sodium Batteries, Polymer Batteries, etc. Lithium could be dropped like a bad joke at a party if a much better battery technology appears in the next 5 years. Then there's my thinking that Batteries are just stop gap measures until the world puts the effort into producing Smaller and Micro modular Reactors, utilising Thorium or other safe technologies.
List Lithium mining companies quoting their AISC and jurisdiction - it soon becomes clear where you should be investing. Note Chinese miners do not include waste management costs in their AISC and not recognised as being "Green" so are not preferred suppliers. Atlantic Lithium #A11 #ALL have a compelling investment case going forward with projected AISC of US$675/t.
If you can't show a path to profitability the stock will go to zero. Kind of like when every farmer plants a whole lot of the same crop, you have good weather a bumper crop, and the stuff can't sell for much.You have to analyze the debt and cash flow to see if there is a possible plan to keep the company alive, given 3 years at today's price... if you line up all the lithium sources(mines, companies) sort them by the quality of the ore, only the cheapest to extract will survive.
Exactly what is going to make the price of lithium rebound? Demand alone? I presume that the producers responsible for the current glut will resume production should the market improve and that the price of lithium does not have much potential to rise significantly until demand grows concomitantly.
If and when solid state batteries are viable then I think lithium will still be in demand, but I do not think it will increase in price. If we develop an energy containment system that is equivalent and does not need lithium then it could go down .
Did I not hear an announcement 3 days ago from Australian Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen that the gov was to invest $230 million in the Lithium industry. So is this an investment at the right time and therefor an investment in the future or a prop out of the industry. Would like to know where my money is being spend as we battle with cost of living?
I would be in with the current price!!! Hard to go any further down!!! We still need cordless tools and cellphones and at 19 cents then if you loose then it’s not the end of the world!!!!!
Lithium prices are plummeting due to supply and demand. As EV sales continue to drop around world due to the lack of consumer demand lithium prices will follow this trend.
I think not, Lithium is just one of the most common materials in the world. It's like buying a lot of sand because you need sand to make glass and solar panels contain glass and more and more solar panels are made.
Lithium was developed as it allows power to small expensive electronic devices like mobile phones. They got smaller and powered up for longer. Then they figured Lithium batteries could make cars go very much faster. Now, we’ve figured cars don’t need to go that fast. So cheaper metal ions can be used to power large electric vehicles. We don’t need Lithium as the main element in electric vehicles. Basic chemistry, have a look at an activity table.
It took time to increase mining and refining of lithium and now it will take time to build more factories and hire more people to increase the production of batteries from this cheap lithium. What I want to know is how this will affect battery recycling given lithium was already so cheap that there was little incentive to try get the tiny amount of it out of batteries?
Probably a good bet on Lithium companies. the year 1991, when Sony first got rechargeable Li batteries put into devices. It's been well over 30 years to get these batteries made cheap enough for the common device. Multi nations, multi companies. Even if Sodium Ion batteries or Solid-state batteries get manufacturing traction on device sold to consumers, it probably take at least 20 years from today. So Lithium will hold steady for at least 20 years.
The main reason governments are mandating electrification of passenger vehicles actually relates more to global political agendas than climate concerns. As it turns out, ICE passenger vehicles only contribute at most 7% of all worldwide carbon emissions (reference Harry's Garage channel on RU-vid discussing this subject for further details). So this brings up the crucial question of "why" then are governments focussing on passenger vehicles and forcing electrification on consumers? The answer is quite simple ... it involves World Economic Forum (WEF) directives to insure long-term human sustainability but interestingly these (directives) are heavily influenced by China and its own CCP objectives. In essence, a global dependence on fossil fuels is being exchanged for Lithium and Cobalt ... and you may have already guessed it but China controls over 80% of all mining/ processing of these two critical natural resources (in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile). This vehicle electrification program shifting global energy dependence is just one of several maneuvers instigated by China to be in a position, as the CCP has stated, thereby "offering the world an alternative form of governance and economics" by 2046. As is the case regarding many political topics in life ... things are not quite as they appear on the surface!
I think that most ev enthusiasts and renewable fold just don't get it. Generally people don't want ev's the range, cost weight just are not there yet. Not to mention the infrastructure to support it and to charge cars ur using coal is insane. I love new tech and I like rechargeable batteries and solor cells but it's not there yet.
