In what could be an important breakthrough in South Africa’s transition to EV’s (electric vehicles), the technology described below could hold enormous promise.
Forgetting for a moment the two negative aspects of EV’s in SA – initial cost and how the government will ‘reclaim’ lost fuel revenues amounting to hundreds of billions of Rands, the role out of charging infrastructure particularly in rural areas and Eskom’s inability to provide a stable electricity supply, could be addressed in whole or in part by this Australian development.
Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited (LON:FAR) is developing the giant Balasausqandiq vanadium deposit in Kyzylordinskaya oblast of southern Kazakhstan. The ore at this deposit is unlike that of nearly all other primary vanadium deposits and is capable of being treated by a much lower cost process.