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ITM don’t make alkaline electroysers so not going to be them; I don’t see why AFC can’t make a bespoke electrolyser; ITM experimented in fuel cells but didn’t sell them. It depends if AFC have already tried making electrolysers; if not then yes another company such as McPhy is possible.

And a £7.5M increase in mcap from the Arden note in June.

Got 83.9% but couldn't afford to apply for many.

Yes and No. I have filled and killed shares many times; in my experience the fill and kill fails after 10mins if you put in too large amount of an order (i.e. MMs not willing to offer X amount of shares at the limit you specified). If the shares are there however a minute after you placed the order then they'll get filled. I haven't filled or killed a VDTK order.

In general or for VDTK?

I've being trying to purchase some, but no luck.

Since divesting PV Crystalox and Renesola, some time ago now, I've wanted to invest in a solar related company; this may be it.

And don’t get me started In Stephen Voller; anything he was involved in collapsed. I remember the creation of Cella Energy and critiquing the concept; the idea was doomed to failure let alone the management.

Feeks - I looked into setting up a cargo bike ice cream business too; discovered that there was an ice cream 'mafia' or cartel if you will! If you haven't already check out the Velove Armadillo as that was the vehicle I was thinking about purchasing. It's a great bike; very comfortable, high payload. I tested it a few years ago now in Gothenburg; they've gone from strength to strength.

Yes, I also know about Solbian but dismissed them due to their exorbitant prices.

Feeks- Yes, I contacted Revonte a couple of months back as wanted to know if they sold individual units not just OEM or direct to the manufacturer; sadly they don’t. The smooth transition through the gears is very appealing so you can set your desired cadence regardless of topography and the power assist will alter accordingly. I did find out however that you need battery power to operate the transmission, so if you run out of battery you can only use one gear; that was the situation back in May at least when I last spoke with them. On the plus side that does mean that solar would be even more useful as you don’t need much power to operate the transmission.

Forgot to say, time of year makes a huge difference in the northern hemisphere; EAV haven’t been running a whole year yet; Nov last year for DPD, so too early to say but 6 months through winter, spring and early summer is a pretty good indication which one can extrapolate over a 12 month period.

I love cycling and I’ve followed cargo bikes for many years and tested a great deal of them, even went to the cargo bike festival last year in Groningen. Sadly EAV weren’t present. I also used to operate a 4 wheeler cargo bike for work. As I said in another thread, EAV are happy working with Verditek; They’re averaging 25% increase in range or used for auxiliary purposes. Greatly depends on the topography and location (in London it may be fairly flat centrally but tall buildings can limit the solar exposure at certain parts of the day due to shading/blocking. If they’re averaging 25% now for DPD (think they’ve been running with them the longest) then one could add 50% say onto that when Graphene PV is working reliably, which would equate to 37.5%.

Aargh! The smiley face comes up as a ?? Doh! Old school then :-)

Sophie1 - Aside from my typo, I'm not apologising ??, just explaining where I'm coming from in terms of my perspective and trying to ascertain if I'm missing anything as I was put off a bit by the over ebullient Harrison interview; it was the comparison with conventional panels that concerned me, as if VDTK were the only company in the world making flexible panels.

I've listened to all the interviews that Parob provided a link to; was there another one I missed?

Forgot to mention, the 25% is in relation to the flexible panel, just, as I said before, the cell itself, not the module as Sunpower use the same mono crystalline cell; it says so on the link I previously enclosed. They don't state the module or panel efficiency but as you say, probably around 22%.

No wish to discredit, I don't do that. When I'm investing my hard earned I don't want my desire for clean tech companies to succeed to blind me from any potential issues. As I've only just come across this company after a sizeable increase in it's value I'm trying to play catch-up when the market is closed. Many people on here will have spent far longer researching this company so just trying to get a handle on it. I guess I'm perplexed at why existing solar companies have seemingly missed a trick.

Just noticed the typo, not VRDT, but should be VDTK.

As I said, I don't know why the warranty is different; see my earlier comment; I have sent an email to VRDT so will report back if they explain anything of interest.
I'm not a Sunpower reseller but if you look online I'm sure you'll be able to find the cost of the 170W unit and work out the cost/m2 of their unit. £1.50/W sounds competitive though is that just for one 275W panel or 1kW worth?
Yes, the payback is very short for military applications.
I've contacted EAV and they are impressed with the responsiveness of Verditek; that could be another reason why Verditek are making headway; more adaptable to startups and SMEs and in EAVs case dealing with another UK company.