Thanks for that good news Fab86: ‘....Volgren’s Bus Optimisation Project aspires to take an entire tonne out of their Optimus model, which requires nothing short of a wonder material. And the wonder material is element #21: Scandium, which is currently expensive and short in supply, but does incredible things when alloyed in very tiny amounts with element #13, good ol’ Aluminium.
There are few suppliers of Scandium, and global volumes traded are guessed to be under 20 tonnes per year with a price tag of $US 1,000 per kilogram or more, if a supply can be found at all. However, this could change soon, thanks to Volgren’s collaboration with Clean TeQ, which is developing a Scandium / Nickel / Cobalt mine in NSW, as well as Deakin University Institute for Frontier Materials researchers, bus companies Marcopolo and Hess – and AMGC.....’
