Aluminium and Metal-air batteries

Metal-air batteries needs aluminium; their prices have moved together.

Aluminium (commodity) and Metal-air batteries (energy): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Material need

Physical flow · Direct · Aluminium → Metal-air batteries

Building or running Metal-air batteries needs aluminium.

2. Price link: anode metal

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Aluminium-air cells offer very high energy but consume their aluminium plates, which must be recycled at smelters. The proxy shows no link to aluminium, with monthly moves at -0.07, since aluminium-air is still a niche.

• -0.07 monthly change correlation
• -0.21 12-month change correlation
• 0.16 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.