Keywords: motor vehicles, cars, passenger vehicles, electric vehicles, vehicle batteries, lithium-ion batteries, supply chain, value chain. The electrification revolution offers significant potential for innovation along the battery supply chain to ensure that batteries become a key segment in the sustainable energy story of the future. Battery materials and electric vehicles offer something unique to today's commodity producers and investors: a sustainable growth story that is not just China-dependent. It can process all Li-ion batteries and chemistries to recover enduring intermediate products: lithium, cobalt, copper, and more, creating a cost-effective closed loop Li-ion battery supply chain. In this paper, a closed loop supply chain network model for electric vehicle Lithium-ion battery stakeholders, that considers spent battery remanufacturing as a viable end-of-life strategy, is proposed. Until recently, the market for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) was driven by their use in portable electronics. This report aims to provide an initial overview of the supply chain of electric car batteries, and to answer the following research question: What effect does the growing demand for electric vehicles have on the social and environmental conditions throughout the electric car battery supply chain? [failed verification]CATL produced 11.8 GWh of battery capacity in 2017, an increase of over 74% from 2016. Battery Precious Metals Have Serious Supply Chain Risks. Achieving these governmental goals The exponential growth in demand is creating a scramble for resources not seen since the last great commodity super cycle. So, I want to discuss a specific supply chain risk facing the battery industry that is lurking just below the surface. 5 Analysis of the battery value chains M-Five – 3.7.2016 – with final modifications 9.11.2016 List of abbreviations BEV Battery electric vehicle EUROBAT Association of European Automotive and Industrial Battery Manu-facturers EV Electric vehicle HEV Hybrid electric vehicle Li Lithium LIB Lithium-Ion Battery Japan’s Panasonic was the second largest manufacturer with 10 GWh, and BYD was third with 7.2 GWh. There needs to be serious thought given to how we can manufacture electric vehicle batteries in a context in which supply of key materials is severely constrained. As of 2019, Panasonic is the largest producer of Lithium-ion batteries for electric mobility at 23GWh, followed by Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) with a capacity of 12 GWh, and BYD. The research focus of this study was to identify the main features of battery global value chain for urban light electric vehicle in South Korea and Japan.