Electric vehicles can have 6 times more minerals than a combustion vehicle and be on average 340 kg heavier.
Which key minerals power the lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles?
Batteries accounted for 74% of lithium consumption in 2021, up from 23% in 2010.
What makes up the cost of a lithium-ion cell?
This chart tracks the history of lithium prices, which surged 497% in 2021 to reach a record high.
Metals mostly provided positive returns in 2021, with lithium and other industrial metals leading the charge while gold and silver slumped.
Despite being the world's biggest carbon polluter, China is also the largest producer of most of the world's critical minerals for the green revolution.
From iron ore to gold, over 3 billion tonnes of metals were mined in 2019. Which metals did miners produce?
Electric vehicles are a key piece of the clean energy puzzle. So what's driving EV adoption, and what's slowing it down?
Energy technologies are often mineral-intensive. This chart shows how the energy shift is creating massive demand for minerals.
