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Aluminium and High-temperature batteries

Their prices have moved together.

Aluminium (commodity) and High-temperature batteries (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: ceramic electrolyte

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

The beta-alumina ceramic that conducts sodium ions is made from aluminium oxide. Making thin, strong ceramic tubes is the main manufacturing challenge, so cost depends on process yield more than on aluminium prices.

  • -0.06 monthly change correlation
  • 0.21 12-month change correlation
  • 0.23 fitted elasticity

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