Welcome to 2025 for all our listeners! In this month's Recharge podcast, co-presenters Matt Fernley (Battery Materials Review) and Cormac O'Laoire (Electrios Energy) kick off the year by discussing:

- The emergence of MENA into the battery value chain

- 2024 review and 2025 outlook

- Battery pricing trends

- The emergence of a two-tier Energy Transition

- 2025 EV sales forecasts

- The decreasing importance of the equity market in funding

- Lithium cost curves and DLE

- Niche materials (HPM, graphite) in 2025

- Trade issues

In November's Recharge podcast, co-presenters Matt Fernley (Battery Materials Review) and Cormac O'Laoire (Electrios Energy) compare notes on their recent travels and talk about some of the key aspects of the industry, including:

Join us for October's Recharge, where co-presenters Matt Fernley (Battery Materials Review) and Cormac O'Laoire (Electrios Energy) discuss and analyse some of the key news and developments from the battery value chain, including:

• China's stimulus and its likely impact on the battery value chain

In this inaugural edition of RECHARGE: The Industry we talk with Vikram Handa, Managing Director of Epsilon Advanced Materials, about his company's development plans in anode materials on three continents, how its process differs from others, the emergence of battery demand in India and how EAM's products stack up against Chinese AAM.

In September's Recharge, co-presenters Matt Fernley (Battery Materials Review) and Cormac O'Laoire (Electrios Energy) discuss and analyse some of the key news and developments from the battery value chain, including:

• Nickel and whether it's heading back to balance

In August's Recharge, co-presenters Matt Fernley (Battery Materials Review) and Cormac O'Laoire (Electrios Energy) discuss all the key news items in the world of batteries and battery materials. Amongst other things, this month we cover:

• China's maturing battery supply chain

Join us for July's Recharge, in which co-presenters Matt Fernley (Battery Materials Review) and Cormac O'Laoire (Electrios Energy) discuss all the key news items in the world of batteries and battery materials. This month we discuss:

• Our takeaways from the Fastmarkets BRM conference

In June's Recharge, co-presenters Matt Fernley (Battery Materials Review) and Cormac O'Laoire (Electrios Energy) discuss all the key news items in the world of batteries and battery materials.

Join us as we discuss:

- US section 301 tariffs and their impact on EV economics and the supply chain;

- Breaking news - European EV tariffs on Chinese OEMs;

- BYD's apparent new strategy in Europe;

- High Purity Manganese and its importance and neglect;

- China lepidolite. Our framework for its emergence and impact on lithium prices;

- The importance of the emergence of 800V architecture in EVs;

- EV sales and how the outlook is more positive than most analysts suggest.

In May's Recharge, co-presenters Matt Fernley (Battery Materials Review) and Cormac O'Laoire (Electrios Energy) discuss all the key news items in the world of batteries and battery materials.

This month's key topics include:

• The Beijing auto show and EV dominance;

In April's Recharge, co-presenters Matt Fernley (Battery Materials Review) and Cormac O'Laoire (Electrios Energy) discuss all the key news items in the world of batteries and battery materials.

This month's key topics include:

• Some feedback from Cormac's recent travels in Asia particularly around the Chinese battery industry;