COMMERCE, Trade and Industry Minister Chipoka Mulenga says feasibility studies for the electric battery manufacturing plant are now 45 percent done. In an interview, Mulenga said the coming on board of FQM’s Enterprise Nickel Mine in Kalumbila District had given abundant raw materials for the electric car battery manufacturing. “…So now what is the benefit of this industry [FQM’s Enterprise Nickel Mine]? Nickel is used in the manufacturing of batteries including these same batteries we use. So as opposed to Zambia importing nickel, we have the raw materials just in North-Western Province. So, this will be another input in the raw material because it’s an addition to Munali Nickel Mine. So now we have got abundance of raw material which...