As with so much else coming out of China, battery manufacturing is in a state of overcapacity which stretches right through the supply chain from final product up to raw materials. But this won’t last forever, as both the EV industry and the energy storage industry are young and have huge growth potential from their current scale. Chinese media outlet EVTank, also known the China YiWei Institute of Economics, has published commentary predicting that the lithium hexafluorophosphate price will rise slightly this year, and may then rise more steeply at some point through 2026-2030, with demand threatening to catch up with supply. Similar points to those made in this article about hexafluorophosphate could likely be made about the immediate precursor…