Teslarati

JANUARY 12, 2024

Stellantis Ventures became a strategic investor of France-based Tiamat, which is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. According to the legacy automaker, Tiamat is the first company in the world to recently commercialize sodium-ion technology in an electrified product.

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CN EV Post

APRIL 16, 2023

In the passenger car segment, sodium-ion batteries can generally meet the needs of models with a range of up to 400 kilometers, a CATL executive previously said. CATL's sodium-ion batteries are not far from starting to be installed in vehicles, after the Chinese power battery giant unveiled the new batteries in July 2021.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2022

Sodium-ion battery cathode producer Altris AB ( earlier post ) signed a deal with AB Sandvik Materials Technology to house the company’s first industrial-scale manufacturing facility in Sandviken. V vs sodium. This expertise derives from the Sandvik AB’s long industrial experience in Sweden.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 7, 2024

continued] The post BYD Constructing Sodium-Ion Battery Gigafactory (30 GWh) appeared first on CleanTechnica. For all the hype around non-lithium-ion battery chemistries in the past decade, nothing has really been competitive with the king.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries have long been touted as a possible successor to the lithium-ion kind—they may have lower energy density, but they rely on more abundant sodium rather than lithium, perform better in cold temperatures, and above all, tend to be cheaper. The model’s sodium battery version has a smaller battery pack (21.4

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2023

Tests conducted by Titirici Group , a multidisciplinary research team based at Imperial College London, have found that a novel carbon nanotube electrode material derived from CO 2 —produced by Estonian nanotech company UP Catalyst ( earlier post )—enhances the cyclability of sodium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Building on earlier work, researchers in China have fabricated a hierarchical metal-organic nanocomposite for use as a cathode in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). They obtained a high specific energy of 762 Wh kg -1 with high average potential of 3.2 —Huang et al. and Huang, Y. 201701484.

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CN EV Post

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The unveiling of the Sehol E10X test vehicle means that sodium-ion batteries are starting to be used in passenger cars, after the new batteries were mainly used in electric two-wheelers and for energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

At Auto Shanghai, Chinese battery giant CATL launched what it calls a “condensed battery”—a type of semi-solid state cell with an energy density of up to 500 Wh/kg. CATL says the cell can achieve high energy density and high level of safety at the same time, opening up a new electrification scenario for passenger aircraft.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Reports from China suggest BYD may be the first manufacturer to bring electric cars with sodium-ion batteries to market.

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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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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, has developed a high-power, high-capacity sodium battery with 96% capacity retention after 2,000 cycles. 2016), “High Power–High Energy Sodium Battery Based on Threefold Interpenetrating Network.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

We will be targeting the production of materials for the high growth market of sodium-ion batteries which is displaying significant promise as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries. This is a very energy consuming process, which combined with a high emission feedstock, has significant environmental impacts. Earlier post.).

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Following closely on the heels of rumors about sodium-ion batteries, BYD announced a new 20 GWh battery factory in China.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Researchers in China have designed a 3D-crosslinked binder with ultralow-content (1 wt%) that not only endures the huge volume variation of silicon anodes under charge/discharge cycles but also enhance electrochemical performance. Density Functional Theory simulations indicate that the main hydrogen bonds energies changed from −4.11

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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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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 22, 2023

Lithium is abundant, but difficult to extract and purify for use in batteries. Last year, the price of lithium carbonate peaked at over $80,000 per ton, although it has come down considerably since then. Oddly enough, people who don’t bat an eye about oil and gas wells within a few feet of homes and schools […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 15, 2023

BYD is expanding its operations worldwide beginning with a new factory in India. How much longer before it targets the US market?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

A team of researchers from institutions in China and the US report the design of a negatively charged graphene composite separator for the effective suppression of the polysulfide shuttling effect in Li-sulfur batteries. Therefore, despite extensive efforts, the improvement to date remains rather unsatisfactory, especially in energy density.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2021

Tesla’s battery supply for its cars made in China is set to expand. The electric automaker’s battery cell supplier in China, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Credit: Tesla Greater China/Twitter. China is quickly becoming one of the most prominent locations for electric vehicles. What do you think?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2014

The chemistries included in the report are all lithium-ion (Li-ion) chemistries, flow battery chemistries, sodium metal halide, sodium sulfur (NaS), aqueous sodium-ion, and advanced lead-carbon. The only major application segment with significant penetration by other chemistries is stationary energy storage (0.3%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

On the other hand, the company raised its forecast of primary nickel use, first, in the stainless steel sector in China and, particularly, in Europe, where decline in 2022 production was lower than originally expected, and second, in other melting applications, due to strong demand from the aerospace, oil & gas and military sectors.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

There are currently 11 commercial plants at the Salton Sea field producing geothermal energy, a process in which hot fluids are pumped up from deep underground and the heat is then converted to electricity. Berkeley Lab has projects with both under grants from the California Energy Commission.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have found a way to process biomass-derived natural silk to create carbon-based nanosheets that could potentially be used in Li-ion batteries and other energy storage devices. through a facile synthesis route for highly efficient energy storage devices. —Hou et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2015

in terms of energy capacity and 7.1% While the consumer electronics segment saw tepid growth in 2014, the vehicle electrification and grid-energy storage sectors experienced significant increases in energy capacity and associated revenue. Between 2013 and 2014, the industry’s growth rate increased 12.8% in terms of revenue.

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My Electric Car

JANUARY 29, 2023

For example the volumetric energy density of lithium-ion batteries has increased eightfold since 2008, from around 55 watt-hours/litre to 450 watt-hours/litre in 2020. Another chemistry that is coming onstream is sodium ion. At the same time the cost of lithium-ion battery packs declined 87% between 2008 and 2021.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Jutting out from the coast of China’s Fujian province, Changbiao Island may seem small and unremarkable. This is where the China National Nuclear Corp. So China could start producing weapons-grade plutonium there very soon. Liquid sodium is used as a coolant because it does not slow down neutrons as much as water does.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

Researchers at Wuhan University in China have developed a new electrochemical cell, PANI/Li x Mn 2 O 4 , for selective recovery of Li + ions from brine water with high impurity cations (K + , Na + , Mg 2+ , etc). As predicted, average annual growth of global lithium consumption would still be ~10 % in near future.

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Teslarati

JULY 29, 2021

Tesla China battery cell supplier Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. CATL) unveiled its sodium-ion battery earlier today, along with a solution that could integrate the cells with lithium-ion batteries in a single pack. GWh in the first half of 2021, up 234% year-over-year, according to Automotive News China. CATL sold 34.1

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2019

A team of researchers from China and Germany have used azulene—a benzene-free and vinyl-free molecule—to polymerize with sulfur to create a cathode material for Li-S batteries. The reactions of organohalides with sodium polysulfide and sulfur with dithiols seem to be the most effective routes to obtain organosulfur polymers.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2023

One in every of China’s govern battery-makers reckons it has cracked a era to handover even inexpensive and extra tough packs for electrical automobiles. just lately unveiled a lithium-iron-manganese-phosphate battery — LMFP for shorten — which it says will energy an EV for 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) on every price.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Drawbacks of these batteries — the reason people are looking for new chemistries — are cost and scarcity of the primary minerals, limitations to energy density, safety issues, and temperature sensitivity. Another approach under development is adding lithium salt to the electrolyte of lithium-ion batteries to reduce flammability.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Department of Energy (DOE) released a report suggesting that, in theory, over 300 former and present coal power plants could be converted to nuclear. A lot of communities that may have not traditionally been looking at advanced nuclear, or nuclear energy in general, are now being incentivized to look at it,” says Victor Ibarra Jr. ,

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Push EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Contemporary Amperex Technology Thuringia GmbH (CATT), CATL’s first plant outside of China, has kicked off serial production of lithium-ion battery cells in December as scheduled, marking another milestone on CATL’s global journey. The affordable cobalt-free chemistry LFP, the high energy density chemistry NCM or maybe both?

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Using low-carbon fuels or biofuels as the source of heat energy to process lithium and manufacture li-ion batteries would cut carbon emissions by half as per world banks study. [4] tons of GHG each year assuming 50% energy generation from renewable energy [3,6]. China currently dominates the midstream processing of lithium.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2023

Gotion’s manganese-added cells “will create real opportunity to compete with some NCM chemistries where standard LFP struggles to compete on energy density,” mentioned Victoria Hugill, battery analysis analyst at London-based consultancy Rho Movement. LMFP may pluck a 6 p.c

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Electric Vehicles India

APRIL 6, 2021

A 5V Dual Carbon Battery that uses self-standing carbon fibre mats as both electrodes such as cathode and anode has been developed by the Electrochemical Energy Storage Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH). Low-cost 5V dual carbon battery development for EV . A research group led by Surendra K.

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