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Battery Report 2023, page 38: Cell Costs
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Cell Costs

2023 Battery Pack Prices

2023 Battery Pack Prices

Battery prices resume long trend of decline after unprecedented increase in 2022

Average pack price dropped 14% to a record low of $139/kWh

This was driven by raw material and component prices falling while production capacity overshot demand

Pack-to-cell price ratio is recently plateauing at ~1:5

Prices were lowest in China, followed by US and then Europe. There was intense price competition in a crowded market in China

LFP cells were 32% cheaper than NMC cells

Prices are converging across sectors

Commercial EV pack prices ex.China are converging on average prices in the BEV and ESS sectors

Source: Bloomberg NEF

Extracted from the PDF; charts and images may read imperfectly.

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