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Battery Cell & Pack
2025/12/08 update

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Battery Cell-Square Ternary Battery Cell: for EV (RMB/Wh) (RMB) 0.48 ( 6.67 % )
Battery Cell-Square LFP Battery Cell: for EV (RMB/Wh) (RMB) 0.34 ( 0.0 % )
Battery Cell-Pouch Ternary Battery Cell: for EV (RMB/Wh) (RMB) 0.5 ( 4.17 % )
Battery Cell-Square LFP Battery Cell: Energy Storage (RMB/Wh) (RMB) 0.32 ( 0.0 % )
Battery Cell-Lithium Cobaltate Battery Cell: Consumer (RMB/Ah) (RMB) 7.4 ( 4.52 % )
Battery Pack-Square Ternary (RMB/Wh) (RMB) 0.64 ( 8.47 % )
Battery Pack-Square LFP (RMB/Wh) (RMB) 0.45 ( 0.0 % )

Precursor and Cathode Material
2025/12/08 update

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Precursor-Iron Phosphate (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 1.07 ( 0.94 % )
Precursor-NCM523 (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 9.89 ( 6.12 % )
Precursor-NCM622 (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 9.63 ( 5.13 % )
Precursor-NCM811 (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 10.85 ( 5.54 % )
Cathode Material-NCM523 (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 14.11 ( 8.21 % )
Cathode Material-NCM622 (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 14.29 ( 5.62 % )
Cathode Material-NCM811 (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 15.91 ( 1.86 % )
Cathode Material-LFP (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 3.75 ( 5.34 % )
Cathode Material-LCO (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 38.23 ( 6.25 % )
Cathode Material-LMO (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 3.82 ( 9.46 % )

Anode Material
2025/12/08 update

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Graphitization Process Cost: low-end (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 0.75 ( 1.35 % )
Graphitization Process Cost: high-end (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 0.9 ( 0.0 % )
Natural Graphite: Low-end (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 2.12 ( 0.0 % )
Natural Graphite: Mid-end (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 2.67 ( 0.0 % )
Natural Graphite: High-end (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 4.52 ( 0.0 % )
Artificial Graphite: Low-end (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 2.01 ( 4.15 % )
Artificial Graphite: Mid-end (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 2.86 ( 3.62 % )
Artificial Graphite: High-end (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 5.2 ( 0.39 % )

Separator
2025/12/08 update

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Dry Base Film-16μm (RMB/m2) (RMB) 0.44 ( 0.0 % )
Wet Base Film-7μm (RMB/m2) (RMB) 0.79 ( 0.0 % )
Wet Base Film-9μm (RMB/m2) (RMB) 0.78 ( 0.0 % )
Coated Separator-7μm+2μm Ceramic Coated Separator (RMB/m2) (RMB) 1.1 ( 1.85 % )
Coated Separator-9μm+3μm Ceramic Coated Separator (RMB/m2) (RMB) 1.11 ( 1.83 % )

Electrolyte
2025/12/08 update

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Lithium Electrolyte Salts-LiPF6 (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 14.46 ( 70.72 % )
Electrolyte Solution-Used for Ternary Battery (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 2.79 ( 20.78 % )
Electrolyte Solution-Used for LFP Battery (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 2.53 ( 28.43 % )
Electrolyte Solution-Used for LCO Battery (4.35V ) (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 4.73 ( 15.37 % )

Li & Co & Ni
2025/12/08 update

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Concentrated Spodumene: 6%, CIF (USD/ton) (USD) 1029 ( 22.35 % )
Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 8.77 ( 14.64 % )
Battery-Grade Lithium Hydroxide (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 8.14 ( 7.67 % )
Electrolytic Cobalt: Co Content≥99.8% (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 39.48 ( 2.47 % )
Cobalt(II,III) Oxide: Co Content≥72.8% (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 35.08 ( 5.79 % )
Battery-Grade Nickel Sulfate: Co Content≥20.5% (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 9.1 ( 4.96 % )
Electrolytic Nickel: Ni 99.9% min (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 12 ( -2.36 % )
Battery-Grade Nickel Sulfate: Ni 22% min (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 2.85 ( 0.0 % )

Other
2025/12/08 update

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Process Cost for 6μm Battery-Grade Copper Foil (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 1.9 ( 0.0 % )
Process Cost for 12μm Battery-Grade Aluminum Foil (10K RMB/ton) (RMB) 1.5 ( 0.0 % )

Product Definition:
Polymer Battery Cell:
Thickness: 3 mm ~ 5 mm
Density: 420 W/g ~450 W/g
Life Span: 500 times charge

Applications: Major focuses on the products with a combination of a single series circuit and multiple parallel circuits , such as tablet PCs

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