Advanced Materials for Transportation Technology Collaboration Programme
MISSION
The AMT TCP endeavors to develop and provide materials technologies necessary for improving the fuel economy of current legacy vehicles while expanding to develop materials technologies for EVs, which aids in electrifying land transport. AMT organizes a multi-national collaborative network to:
1) Pioneer new concepts on low-friction surface technology, critical assessment of thermoelectric materials and standards development, and developing guides for dissimilar-materials joint design, selection and performance;
2) Promote technical information exchange and cross-training among member countries; and
3) Create an experts’ network to leverage resources among member countries and enable individual participants to initiate and/or accelerate their technology development, which would be difficult without the network. This directly coincides with CERT and EUWP strategies.
exco leadership
The work of the AMT TCP is governed by the Executive Committee (“ExCo”), which consists of one member designated by each Contracting Party. Contracting Parties are either governments of IEA countries or parties designated by their respective governments. The AMT TCP ExCo meets twice a year to discuss and plan the working programme. The guiding documents of the AMT TCP can be found on the following links: Link to report | Link to summary.
Executive Committee Members
Chair: Jerry Gibbs, U.S. Department of Energy
Vice Chair – Americas: Kumar Sadayappan, Natural Resources Canada
Vice Chair – Asia: Shengqiang Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics
Vice Chair – Europe: Carsten Gachot, Vienna University of Technology
Secretary (vacant): Thomas Perrot, Energetics, contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy (acting)
IEA Critical Materials Outlook
While today’s critical mineral markets may appear well supplied, with prices well down from the highs seen in 2021 and 2022, IEA’s new report finds that a combination of increasing supply concentration in a handful of countries and the spread of export restrictions is raising the risk of disruptions.
The 2025 edition of IEA’s annual Global Critical Minerals Outlook presents the latest data and analysis on supply, demand, investment and more for key energy-related minerals, including copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and rare earth elements. It is accompanied by an updated Critical Minerals Data Explorer, an interactive online tool that allows users to explore our latest projections. For the first time, the report also includes analysis of a broader range of energy-related strategic minerals that play vital roles in the high-tech, aerospace and advanced manufacturing sectors.
The report finds that critical mineral markets have become more concentrated, not less, particularly when it comes to refining and processing. The average market share of the top three refining nations rose to 86% in 2024 from around 82% in 2020, with almost all supply growth coming from the single top supplier: Indonesia for nickel, and China for all other minerals.
The report sees particular risks for lithium and especially copper. With demand set to surge as countries look to expand their electricity networks, the current copper mine project pipeline points to a 30% supply deficit by 2035. Growing export restrictions could also impact the security of supply for critical minerals.
Since IEA published their landmark report on critical minerals in 2021 and received new ministerial mandates from Member governments in March 2022, the IEA has significantly expanded and deepened its work on critical minerals to support policy makers. IEA began publishing annual analyses of markets in 2023 and recently held an emergency preparedness exercise as part of our expanding Critical Minerals Security Programme. Critical minerals were also a major focus at the Summit on the Future of Energy Security we recently hosted in London in partnership with the UK government.
Explore the full report.