Lakshya Gupta
Senior Market Analyst: Battery Materials and Technologies
MEng (Hons)
Lakshya works in these teams
- Battery Metals and Materials
- Sustainability and ESG
- The Energy Transition
- Balancing the Grid
- Responsible Sourcing
- Battery Metals Market Reports
- The Powertrains Team
- Lithium-ion Battery Recycling
- Critical Minerals Research
- Supply Chain CSR
- Chemical and Metallurgical Processing
- Nuclear Power and Uranium
- Value Chain Analytics
- Market Panelist Expert
- Conference Presentations
Expertise and career highlights
Lakshya joined SFA (Oxford)’s battery team in 2018, after completing his Master’s in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London.
At SFA, he is responsible for the battery metal demand forecasting, tracking mid- and downstream players and their relationships, and also tracking battery technology developments. He has completed various consulting projects focused on alternative battery metal sourcing strategies to help clients improve the ESG credentials of their battery supply chain- from looking at alternatives to DRC sourced cobalt to forecasting the global potential of metal volumes from battery recycling.
Selected presentations:
- "EVs and their impact on palladium"
(SFA's New York Palladium Event 2022) - "The risks of battery electric vehicles powering ahead"
(SFA's New York Palladium Event 2021) - "Accelerating towards electrification?"
(SFA's New York Palladium Event 2019)
Lakshya works in these teams
- Battery Metals and Materials
- Sustainability and ESG
- The Energy Transition
- Balancing the Grid
- Responsible Sourcing
- Battery Metals Market Reports
- The Powertrains Team
- Lithium-ion Battery Recycling
- Critical Minerals Research
- Supply Chain CSR
- Chemical and Metallurgical Processing
- Nuclear Power and Uranium
- Value Chain Analytics
- Market Panelist Expert
- Conference Presentations
News and insights from Lakshya
CATL's LFP: 400km of range in 10 minutes?
16 August 2023 | Lakshya Gupta
On 16th August, CATL (SHE: 300750) announced the world’s first 4C rapid charging battery based on a LFP chemistry.
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