PBoC's Gold Conduit Revealed: Chinese Central Bank Did Not Stop Buying Gold In May
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Samsung has developed a new solid-state (SS) battery. The inclusion of silver as a key component, combined with the increasing demand for electric vehicles, means that demand for the grey metal will soon increase.
“The key drivers that will ramp up demand for EVs are range, charge time, battery life and safety”.
Achieving amazing benchmarks like a 600-mile range and a 20-year lifespan and 9-minute charge.
“A typical EV battery pack containing around 200 cells for a 100 kWh capacity could require about 1 kg of silver per vehicle.”
With global car production standing at about 80 million vehicles per year, if 20% of these vehicles (16 million EVs) were to adopt Samsung's solid-state batteries, the annual demand for silver would be around 16,000 metric tons (16 million vehicles * 1 kg of silver per vehicle)”.
“This would represent a significant portion of the current global silver production, which is approximately 25,000 metric tons annually,
Last Friday’s COT report showed that commercial traders were net short 320,000 contracts. That’s the largest net-short position of the past year.
Historically, when the commercial traders’ net-short position gets this high, the price of gold tends to suffer in the short term.
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