摘要
Battery suppliers and adtomakers are vying to secure their own supplies of lithium as prices increase and supplies drop amid tremendous demand for electric vehicles,Tianqi Lithium,a Shenzhen-listed top Chinese supplier of key materials used in batteries for electric vehicles,raised about US$1.7 billion in its Hong Kong IPO on July 13,the city's biggest listing this year,as lithium carbonate used to make EV(electric vehicle)batteries becomes a hot commodity and its price hit new highs.The next day,the company announced in its financial statement that its net profits for the first six months of 2022 had surged nearly 111 times year-on-year.
