China Nonferrous Metallurgy

In order to tackle the global climate change and promote the carbon neutrality to be a global consensus, the development of new energy vehicle (NEV) industry has become an important technical path and strategy choice. As a major power battery producer in the world, enterprises related to the industrial chain in China have restructured their layouts in the raw materials field to ensure the supply of raw materials for power battery. In which, nickel, as the main raw materials of power battery, has attracted so much attention in the technical and industry development trend diverting from the resource development to smelting and processing, as well as raw material production. Combined with the development policy of power battery in the process of realizing the goal of “carbon neutrality”, this paper calculates and analyzes the carbon emission intensity of battery nickel products produced by treating laterite nickel ore with different processes, further analyzes the development trend of battery nickel industry in the future, and puts forward countermeasures for the industry development, especially the cutting-edge layout of enterprises, so as to provide reference for relevant enterprises and decision-makers to better understand the development trend of the industrial chain from the overall situation.