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'It is predicted that the increased use of vanadium in the car industry will drive the market for years to come. It utility in reducing the weight and increasing the fuel efficiency of cars, means that 85% of all cars will use vanadium by 2025.'
With electric cars being heavy, vanadium will certainly be required for the growing market to reduce weight.
much of a veh is made now of Aluminium, not steel .... not sure where the Vanadium would be used !!
Faramog, didn't Terry Perles speak about this on the spotify podcast posted on here last week? It's potential use in EV...
Faramog nuts and bolts and sub structure, drive train engine their are shed loads of steel in cars
Springs shockers drive shafts internals in gearbox crankshafts valves piston liners steering racks , at a guess half a cars weight still might be steel and the majority of cars are still steel , vans , trucks , buses trains as well
EV's wont have driveshafts or gearboxes - lots of suspension is or will move more to air suspension... I get what you say @Gambit, but dont see the huge use (except maybe in the electrode setups for LiIo) ... but we will see
Solid steady rise today ...
Actually the move is away from pure Aluminium to a mix of steel and aluminium… see below
https://automotive.arcelormittal.com/news_and_stories/cases/2017ElectricVehiclesImpactOnSteel
OEMs turning to steel
Increasing battery capacity by one kWh typically costs around €100. OEMs must assess the cost of weight savings against the cost of a positive increase in battery capacity. Today, AHSS steels are still a more cost-effective solution to increase range.
Carmakers are recognizing this, leading to a major usage of steel in EVs. The body and chassis of Tesla’s new Model 3 mass-market vehicle is a blend of steel and aluminum, unlike the Tesla Model S which has an aluminum body (source: Tesla
interesting ... one of the reasons before for not doing a mix of steel & aluminium with novel alloys is it makes recycling near impossible in anything other than a low grade application
Had this very conversation with the head of BiW about 5 years ago as to why no mixing ... things must have moved on .... but without effective recycling the 'green' equation/credentials are rather up for debate
E V s will have drive shafts to transmit the drive from the motor to the wheels, they do not need a prop shaft though.
some dont already ... motor on the wheel assembly - has advantages (weight stability control, traction control) and disadvantages (complexity and extra coper cost) [there are lots of pros & cons).
But major weight is not driveshafts for EV's - if a common motor per axle they are relatively short.
Faramog and those interested. Have a look at a certain graphite miner's last RNS. Aluminium-graphene composite discovery to potentially replace some copper applications and aluminium strength by 300% for EV's. Still a pipe-dream at scale but I found it interesting and the article by Nick mentioned graphene batteries are being developed too.
Won't link here as not looking to cross-ramp, but if you know you know.
Was reading the other day about Graphine Batteries, a US firm have developed one that charges 17 times faster than lithium, doesn't catch fire (well there are lithium types that don't as well now). They are just working on scaling it now but is very interesting. GLA
Vanadium batteries are looking good too, they are just getting better and better. Still trying to think which will be the final choice. Its a bit like VHS, Betamax and Phillips 2000. betamax was and is great for audio recordings. 2000 you can flip over. But the plain and simple simple VHS won. I dont maybe i am wrong but there so much development gong on with batteries its crazy. I will stop dribbling on now. GLA
VRFB is the best choice for long duration grid scale energy storage, non degradable unlike all others currently in the market. This is nothing like the video player scenario. There is room for both types of battery because of the different applications.
clarkgriswold (@Griswold01W) Tweeted: Bushveld Minerals Share Price: global vanadium ore market set to grow in 2021 https://t.co/laD7swEwaA via @UK Investor Magazine https://twitter.com/Griswold01W/status/1391827103948156928?s=20
Plus there won't be enough Lithium for flammable grid storage when it will be part of the exponential rise in EV's.
NB. I do have flammable lithium car but would never have a power-wall in my house.
Importantly it because of better marketing.....it was put out there in a more effective manner. This companies biggest threat is under selling itself.