Metal-air batteries and Zinc

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

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

How they are linked

1. Material need

Physical flow · Direct · Zinc → Metal-air batteries

Building or running Metal-air batteries needs zinc.

2. Price link: anode metal

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Zinc-air cells oxidise zinc powder, and zinc is their main material cost. The primary battery proxy covers many chemistries, so it shows no link to zinc, with monthly moves at -0.04 and yearly moves at -0.25.

• -0.04 monthly change correlation
• -0.25 12-month change correlation
• 0.14 fitted elasticity

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