Category Archives: Disruptive technology

Plight of the PRA and how Benchmark became the lithium industry’s reference price

4th June 2018Batteries, Chile, China, Disruptive technology, Energy storage, EV, Lithium, Minerals, Supply Chain, UncategorisedBenchmark Mineral Intelligence

Since its inception in 2014, the rise of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence as the lithium industry’s reference price has been the ideal case study for how the commodities publishing industry is changing.

Scandals such as libor and credit ratings fixes have brought scrutiny (and with it a police raid) on commodity

Full circle

28th April 2017Batteries, Disruptive technology, EVBenchmark Mineral Intelligence

From the Benchmark Q1 2017 Review. For full access, subscribe today.

New York, 1897.

The first taxi cabs of New York City were put into service – pure electric vehicles that were manufactured by Pope Manufacturing Company of Boston, Massachusetts.

By the end of the year, 12 all electric … Read more