Lithium, cobalt, graphite tipping point expected in two years: Simon Moores

“We’ve seen over the last ten years a handheld revolution with mobile technologies–phones, tablets, laptops,” Moores told MINING.com last month.

“I think now we are on the verge of a second phase of much bigger batteries, especially electric vehicles and utility batteries. And that is really going to require much larger volumes of critical raw materials like graphite, lithium and cobalt.”

Moores expects to hit a “tipping point” in two year when the demand for electric vehicles takes off. There will also be battery demand from utilities that are turning increasingly to renewables.

Moores estimates that raw material demand for both to be about equal.