Carmakers are working to safe provides of supplies from lithium, nickel, and manganese for batteries to magnesium for automobile elements.
View PhotosScarce provide of uncooked supplies for EVs may sluggish the transition from fossil-fuel burning automobiles.
The scarce provide of uncooked supplies for electrical automobiles may sluggish the transition from fossil-fuel burning automobiles to electrical ones, Mercedes-Benz Chief Executive Ola Kaellenius stated in an interview with German paper Die Zeit on Wednesday.
“The industrialization of mines and refinery capacities may not progress as quickly as demand increases. Should that happen, it would only delay e-mobility, but not prevent it,” Kaellenius stated.
Carmakers are working to safe provides of supplies from lithium, nickel, and manganese for batteries to magnesium for automobile elements as they race to ramp up electrical automobile manufacturing, however rising uncooked materials prices have dug into their margins.
Some, together with Mercedes-Benz – which modified its identify from Daimler on Tuesday after splitting from Daimler Truck – have lifted costs for customers to cushion the blow.
Increases have just lately been seen in response to the continuing semiconductor scarcity, which lowered manufacturing volumes all through final yr.
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