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The production of EV batteries on such a scale would be appropriate for Morocco’s impressive automotive manufacturing ecosystem, which already has the capacity to produce over 700,000 vehicles per year. Now Rabat is aiming to increase Morocco’s output to 1 million vehicles per year by 2025, with many of those being EVs.
If extracted in sufficient quantities, Morocco could locally source all of the major metals used in NMC Li-ion batteries. The kingdom possesses small nickel and manganese reserves that could supply domestic NMC cathode manufacturing. And Morocco may have its own domestic supply of lithium as well.
Morocco is also home to 70 percent of the world’s reserves of phosphate, a key material in the cheaper, lower-range batteries produced primarily by Chinese companies.
Also in September, China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt and South Korean chemical maker LG Chem revealed they were teaming up to build a lithium refinery and cathode materials plant in Morocco. Construction of the CNGR-Al Mada factory will start this year in Jorf Lasfar, a port on Morocco’s Atlantic coast.
Workers at a Mitsubishi factory in Japan install an EV battery. Morocco has 70% of the world's phosphate, a vital material for batteries Morocco’s plan to become a centre for electric vehicle manufacturing has received a boost from two Chinese companies, as the kingdom benefits from the cooling relations between Beijing and Washington.
(LFP) battery. Image courtesy of Skill-Lync. By using phosphate and iron — Morocco is also a net exporter of iron ore — to make LFP batteries, instead of nickel, manganese, and cobalt for its NMC counterpart, Morocco could enjoy a cost advantage of upward of 70% per kilogram.
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