Decarbon Daily - Issue for June 10, 2021
Inside this issue
According to BNEF's recent study, policy changes, technological improvement, and pricing parity will continue to aid EV adoption in Europe.
While there is significant variation between applications, the average lithium-ion battery pack now costs $137/kWh and cells have already dropped to just over $100/kWh
Battery material costs are currently rising, with prices of lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide and cobalt rising 72%, 47% and 58%, respectively, in the first quarter of 2021. Despite this, BloombergNEF expects global volume-weighted average battery pack prices to cross $100/kWh by 2024.
Inside this Issue
- EPA Air Permits: Source for Emission and Air Quality Data
- Electric Vehicle Study
- Power to Decarbonize
- Infrastructure Risks in Climate Change Initiatives
Articles in this issue
Electric Vehicle Study
www.transportenvironment.org
EVs will continue to accelerate according to BNEF’s latest report
Power to Decarbonize
environmentalprogress.org
While sectoral economic transitions are largely outside the domain and impact of energy policy, and deindustrialization is hardly a globa...
Infrastructure Collapse Puts Climate
www.nytimes.com
Infrastructure risks may pose challenges to pushing climate change initiatives.