Chart of the Week: A Bumpy Road Ahead for Electric Cars
By Christian Bogmans and Lama Kiyasseh
August 13, 2018
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Electric car charging station in Berlin, Germany: prices for lithium and cobalt—key ingredients in rechargeable batteries—are rising due limited supply and growing demand for electric cars (photo: Jens Kalaene/Newscom)
The surge in demand for electric cars has been fueled in part by the falling costs of lithium-ion batteries—driven by technological progress—which power everything from electric cars to smartphones. […]