{"id":421660,"date":"2021-06-22T08:45:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T03:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=421660"},"modified":"2021-06-22T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T04:53:54","slug":"high-flying-battery-makers-have-much-to-win-and-lose-sp-global-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/high-flying-battery-makers-have-much-to-win-and-lose-sp-global-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"High-flying battery makers have much to win and lose: S&amp;P Global Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S &amp; P Global Ratings said on Monday the world&#8217;s biggest battery producers globally face substantial upside and downside risks to ratings.<\/p>\n<p>While their growth opportunities are significant, they will need to navigate fast-moving technology, heavy expenditure, geopolitical forces shaping trade lines and environmental strains, it said. <\/p>\n<p>The demand for batteries that power light electric vehicles (including battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids) may grow as much as eight-fold by 2025 from 139 gigawatt hours in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Many countries are encouraging battery production to foster their own domestic electric vehicle industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The battery sector has entered an extremely dynamic phase. Firms face substantial growth opportunities as electric vehicles rapidly replace legacy autos,&#8221; said S &amp; P Global Ratings credit analyst Stephen Chan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S &amp; P Global Ratings said on Monday the world&#8217;s biggest battery producers globally face substantial upside and downside risks to ratings. While their growth opportunities are significant, they will need to navigate fast-moving technology, heavy expenditure, geopolitical forces shaping trade lines and environmental strains, it said. The demand for batteries that power light electric vehicles (including battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids) may grow as much as eight-fold by 2025 from 139 gigawatt hours in 2020. Many countries are encouraging battery production to foster their own domestic electric vehicle industry. &#8220;The battery sector has entered an extremely dynamic phase. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}