Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

Cheap and abundant, sodium is a promising candidate for new battery technology. However, the limited performance of sodium-ion batteries has hindered large-scale application. A paper on the work appears in Nature Energy. V—higher than most sodium-ion batteries previously reported. —Jin et al.

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EV Central

JANUARY 22, 2024

The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. Not that sodium-ion batteries are perfect, not just yet at least. READ MORE: Range anxiety solved?

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Innovation News Network

JULY 14, 2022

Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a sodium-ion battery with greatly extended longevity in laboratory tests. Sodium is a chemical element that is considered cheap, abundant, and a promising candidate for new battery technology.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 24, 2024

The first mass-produced electric vehicle (EV) using a sodium-ion battery has been introduced by JAC Motors. While lithium-ion batteries are more developed and have a higher density than sodium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries are cheaper, dependable, and have better cold-weather performance. Why Sodium-ion Batteries?

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Video: EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think! The mining industry cannot keep up with the demand, so the alternative is to manufacture batteries based on sodium chemistry. The big issue with sodium-ion batteries is that they can store only about two-thirds of the energy of Li-ion batteries of equivalent size.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2020

A paper on their work is published in the journal, ACS Energy Letters. Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), with the intrinsic advantages of resource abundance and geographic uniformity, are desired alternative battery technology to Li-ion batteries (LIBs) for grid-scale energy storage and transportation applications.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

Scientists have been looking for solutions in gravity energy storage , thermal or geothermal storage , and also molten-salt batteries. While rechargeable batteries are the solution of choice for consumer-level use, they are impractical for grid-scale consideration.

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