The UK too is seeking to onshore global production networks for lithium-ion batteries (LiB) and build a domestic battery supply chain. The UK case is instructive as the geopolitical dynamics of onshoring centre on maintaining the UK's role as an automobile manufacturing platform in the post-Brexit period rather than a general ‘global race’.
As demand for electrical energy storage scales, production networks for lithium-ion battery manufacturing are being re-worked organisationally and geographically. The UK - like the US and EU - is seeking to onshore lithium-ion battery production and build a national battery supply chain.
Automotive lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery demand increased by about 65% to 550 GWh in 2022, from about 330 GWh in 2021, primarily as a result of growth in electric passenger car sales, with new registrations increasing by 55% in 2022 relative to 2021.
Background The shift towards electric vehicles (EVs) has generated an unprecedented demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), which, in turn is causing a spike in the demand for critical raw materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt.
These gaps reflect limits in the scope and scale of the UK government's efforts to act as an ‘entrepreneurial state’ with regard to lithium-ion batteries, particularly in the context of growing competition from Europe and the US in the wake of the US Inflation Reduction Act.
Spotlights nexus of auto-manufacturing and lithium-ion batteries, post-Brexit. Battery supply chain shaped by a state project of green industrial transformation. State action towards onshoring converges battery science & manufacturing.
Global EV Li-ion battery capacity by country shares
Share of the global electric vehicles lithium-ion battery manufacturing capacity in 2021 with a forecast for 2025, by country [Graph], Visual Capitalist, February 28, 2022. [Online].
Global production of Lithium, 2017
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