Lithium has become essential in recent years, primarily due to the boom in electric vehicles and other clean technologies that rely on lithium batteries 🔋
We've visualized the world’s largest lithium producing countries:
The cost of an electric vehicle (EV) battery pack can vary depending on composition and chemistry 🚙🔋
In this graphic, we use data from Benchmark Minerals Intelligence to showcase the different costs of battery cells on popular electric vehicles.
For millennia, metals have been purchased and relied on for decorative and industrial uses, figuring out their values based on their practical applications and visual luster 💎
We've visualized how much of each metal you can buy for $1,000 USD:
The International Energy Agency predicts that Asia will account for half of the world’s electricity consumption by 2025 ⚡️
To explore how this growing electricity demand is currently being met, we've mapped Asia’s main sources of electricity by country:
What Electricity Sources Power the World? ⚡️
Note: the source, The Statistical Review of World Energy, excludes hydroelectric energy in their renewable calculations.
What Electricity Sources Power the World? ⚡️
Note: the source, The Statistical Review of World Energy, excludes hydroelectric energy in their renewable calculations.
2022 was another historic year for EVs, with annual production surpassing 10M cars for the first time ever 🚗
Visualized are the top 15 brands by output—the color of each represents their growth from 2021, with darker shades depicting a larger increase:
While many countries have made progress in their energy transition, nearly half of Europe is still dependent on fossil fuels ⛽️
This graphic maps out Europe's top source of electricity generation by country:
What Electricity Sources Power the World? ⚡️
Note: the source, The Statistical Review of World Energy, excludes hydroelectric energy in their renewable calculations.
Copper is a major industrial metal with many applications due to its high ductility, malleability, and electrical conductivity 🎖
But where does the copper we use come from? This graphic lists the world’s largest copper producing countries in 2021.
What Electricity Sources Power the World? ⚡️
Note: the source, The Statistical Review of World Energy, excludes hydroelectric energy in their renewable calculations.
Metals are a big part of our daily lives, found in every building we enter and all devices we use ⛏️
This graphic visualizes all 2.8B tonnes of metals mined in 2022 and highlights each metal’s largest end-use.
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