{"id":561894,"date":"2023-03-13T09:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=561894"},"modified":"2023-03-13T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:49:13","slug":"china-could-control-a-third-of-the-worlds-lithium-supply-by-2025-ubs-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-could-control-a-third-of-the-worlds-lithium-supply-by-2025-ubs-ag\/","title":{"rendered":"China could control a third of the world&#8217;s Lithium supply by 2025: UBS AG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s efforts to ramp up lithium extraction could see it accounting for nearly a third of the world\u2019s supply by the middle of the decade, according to UBS AG.<\/p>\n<p>The bank expects Chinese-controlled mines, including projects in Africa, to raise output to 705,000 tons by 2025, from 194,000 tons in 2022. That would lift China\u2019s share of the mineral critical to electric-vehicle batteries to 32% of global supply, from 24% last year, according to a note on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The race to secure lithium is playing out at the highest levels, with nations including the US prioritizing access to the materials necessary for making batteries as the world turns away from fossil fuels. China\u2019s needs are particularly acute because it\u2019s home to the world\u2019s biggest market for new energy vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s efforts to ramp up lithium extraction could see it accounting for nearly a third of the world\u2019s supply by the middle of the decade, according to UBS AG. The bank expects Chinese-controlled mines, including projects in Africa, to raise output to 705,000 tons by 2025, from 194,000 tons in 2022. That would lift China\u2019s share of the mineral critical to electric-vehicle batteries to 32% of global supply, from 24% last year, according to a note on Friday. The race to secure lithium is playing out at the highest levels, with nations including the US prioritizing access to the materials [&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-561894","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\/561894","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=561894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}