The EV Battery that will Fuel Zambia's Boom Economy

Watch The Industrialist's Audit of 2026 Series Here:    • A Helicopter Overview of what the UPND isn...   In this episode, Kees Kibinda takes you through the MOU between the DRC, the US and Zambia that will have important EV battery components to be made on Zambian soil If you are buying Starlink, use my referral code for your subscription to get a month free: https://starlink.com/residential?refe... (Note this only works for those registering in Zambia) The EV Battery that will Fuel Zambia's Boom Economy 00:00:00 – Moving Beyond Extraction: Value Addition in Mining 00:00:16 – Breaking the Monopoly: China’s Dominance in Battery Processing 00:00:35 – The $4 Billion US-DRC-Zambia MOU Explained 00:01:23 – Overcoming the Resource Curse in Central Africa 00:02:14 – PCAM: The Key to Moving Up the Value Chain 00:02:41 – Enterprise Nickel Mine: Powering 700,000 EVs Annually 00:03:11 – Secondary Revenue: The Commercial Value of Co-products 00:03:40 – Workforce Development: Reskilling for Chemical Engineering 00:04:47 – Financing the Future: The Role of Exim and Afreximbank 00:05:41 – The Missing Link: Seeking a Global Private Co-investor 00:06:51 – Regional Competition: South Africa and Morocco’s Battery Hubs 00:07:07 – Managing Political Risk and the DRC Stability Factor 00:08:34 – Industrializing the Copperbelt: Final Takeaways 00:09:10 – Next Episode: 12,500 Jobs at the Lusaka South MFEZ