
Writing Team
Lithium reversed from its two-year high. China's cell price floor didn't follow. Five forces hold it up — each on its own countdown.

Elise Huan-Cartwright
Former commodity analyst turned specialist writer covering Asian battery supply chains. Spent six years at a mid-tier trading house in Hong Kong before turning to independent market intelligence. Her analysis is built on second-derivative tracking and reality-gap measurement — where the market actually is versus where inputs say it should be.

Ronan Adike
Ronan Adike is a PhD electrochemist who spent fifteen years moving from the SEI to the supply chain — developing, qualifying, and shipping novel battery technologies into applications that had no playbook. He writes for engineers who need a number they can defend, not a headline they can forward.