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16 Jul '12, 5am

Lithium-ion battery prices set to tumble

Lithium-ion battery prices set to tumble

The price of a lithium-ion battery pack (pictured) for passenger cars could be set to tumble – from around $500-$600/kWh now, to just $200/kWh in 2020: and as low as $160/kWh in 2025. That’s the verdict of a new analysis by McKinsey & Company, with the figures taking into account battery management systems, battery cells and packaging. It suggests that with petrol prices above the $3.50/gallon threshold in the USA, battery prices below $250/kWh would make electric cars competitive and so they have developed a bottom-up cost model to analyse the price of automotive batteries into more than 40 underlying drivers and looked at the expected changes across a number of areas including technology and manufacturing. In particular, they highlighted three areas likely to lead to a rapid decline in lithium-ion battery prices: namely manufacturing at scale; lower component prices; and...

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