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No rapid growth stock grows linearly. There are always sentiment and growth exhaustion periods.
Perhaps there are more benign trading explanations. Over the last few months, we have been partially trading on a Biden presidency and eco drive. That mindset and driver has now gone into power and I've heard some investors ask "so what is the growth driver tomorrow?", introducing some moderate volatility into the game.
Fundamentals haven't changed have they?
Or is it simply that the equity release for 1.6m shares happened this morning to pay for the consultants at "Euro energy and infrastructure", who I presume would be eager to cash in their chips, possibly spooking the supply and demand dynamics for a couple of days?
Every manufacturing engineer says the same thing, solid state is possible, but extremely expensive with time consuming and complicated manufacture. You always hear these 'battery revolution' PR articles, but most usable advances have been in li-ion.
Long live lithium ;)
Lithium will be king where size matters, by sheer position in the periodic table and basic chemistry (lightest suitable metal for batteries). Now we just need a massive EU lithium mine + wind farm cluster on the Czech/German border..!
Hm, let's be real team. Lithium ion is fundamentally the best/lightest battery technology.
But solid state... Should we believe there is a crazy revolution in non-solid state batteries, with billions of pounds spent, but the solid state battery revolution is 10+ years away and the cost is nowhere near usable, will also need to demonstrate 10 year lifetimes in automobile applications.
Solid state is plausible, but we're 10-20 years away from serious market share.
USA 82p
Yes, Tesla are in the business of selling dozens of 200+ MWh grid scale batteries.
Gigafactory Berlin will be an interesting factor, but I am assuming at least 1/3rd of the Tesla chain will be Chinese/South American?
There are fundamental annoying reasons for high growth firms not to list in London. For one, AIM is a cesspit of dubious characters, for two many firms cannot easily move from AIM to FTSE (need to show 3+ stable years of annual revenue and accounts. How do you grow exponentially and manage that? FTSE is more suited to large "boring" companies.
I'm assuming it's sentiment and sector related. Biden getting sworn in has pushed green sector shares up.
Similar story for Tesla/Musk becoming the wealthiest man in the world over the last couple of days.
The USA turning to the electric car means crazy demand for lithium.
You can do this. It is a faff and it's more likely to be the broker doing it, but it is quite possible.
For example, a fund/bank with a UK account and a US account could do this easily. The tax implications are beyond your average punter but wth.
US high trade @ 73p
Curious appointee today as per our RNS. Is he our first director with a Wikipedia page?? I am unclear about the American state interest, as I had assumed there would be more of a European focus, but perhaps this gives balance to rascals like the Czech PM and European diplomats (although I assume vast majority of Lithium will still head to Europe).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_P._Bloomfield_Jr.
I have upset Mrs Noise already, she saw me bringing in bags with clinking bottles with what looked like Champagne, unfortunately (for her) they are 3 bottles of Leffe brown in a festive Champagne-esque bottle with metallic tops.
I'm going to like them later, but she'll have to settle for Prosecco this evening