We invited Mike Beck, founder and Managing Director of Regent Advisors LLC, for a chat on SBTV about funding alternatives within the electrical automobile megatrend. He was the correct person to ask as he turned $4m into $2.5b when he noticed the chance in uranium in 2007. Now, Mike has his sights set on the electrical automobile revolution as the subsequent massive development that might have an enormous influence on electrical automobile battery metals comparable to lithium, nickel and cobalt. Mike was a Managing Director at N M Rothschild & Sons with accountability for the firm’s mining, oil and fuel advisory and funding actions.
Discussed on this interview:
- 01:28 Spotting the subsequent massive development.
- 04:25 Electric autos to be cheaper than inner combustion engine autos.
- 07:19 Electric autos are less complicated and quicker to construct.
- 14:21 Overview of nickel market: class I & II nickel
- 17:33 Battery manufacturing solely makes use of class I nickel
- 18:40 Amount of nickel in a normal EV battery.
- 19:59 Staggering projection of nickel provide wanted for electrical automobile demand.
- 23:42 Opportunities for buyers within the electrical automobile revolution.
- 28:44 A devoted class I nickel worth to come back.
- 32:54 Cobalt: Most supply-constrained metallic.
- 38:42 Cobalt worth is very inelastic.
- 42:13 Cobalt 27: Pure unadulterated play on cobalt.
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