Record EV Sales in China Pushes Up the Price of Cobalt and Other Battery Materials

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Chinese car buyers are snapping up electric-powered vehicles in record numbers. In the first half of the year alone, automakers sold 1.2 million new energy vehicles and almost a quarter of a million in June alone.

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While the heightened demand for EVs is great news for the environment, it’s also pushing up the price of materials needed to build the batteries that power those cars.

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