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Elcora acquires vanadium sites in quest to further position in battery technologies

Green Car Congress

which includes ten (10) Vanadium licenses/concessions sites in Morocco. Rechargeable vanadium flow batteries (VFB) use vanadium ions in different oxidation states to store chemical energy currently used for grid energy storage attached to power plants and electrical grids. Elcora Advanced Materials has acquired STE ERMAZONE.A.R.L,

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Typically, an electric bike can run for 30-50 kilometres (20-30 miles) between charges. Recharging a battery can take 5-8 hours, but costs only a few cents a day. Safe places to park and recharge are also needed. The reason is that western governments are not much interested bicycles.